From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA01031; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:13:57 -0800 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id KAA27375 for linux-list; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:13:18 -0800 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA27360 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:13:14 -0800 Received: from alles.intern.julia.de (loehnberg1.core.julia.de [194.221.49.2]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA21583 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:13:05 -0800 Received: from kernel.panic.julia.de (kernel.panic.julia.de [194.221.49.153]) by alles.intern.julia.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA13926 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:09:00 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle Received: (from ralf@localhost) by kernel.panic.julia.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA21447 for linux@relay.engr.SGI.COM; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:10:35 +0200 Message-Id: <199704031810.UAA21447@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: The Indy has landed... To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:10:35 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199704031612.LAA16242@neon.ingenia.ca> from "Mike Shaver" at Apr 3, 97 11:12:26 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi, > [shaver@neon shaver]$ telnet bogomips > Trying 205.207.220.72... > Connected to bogomips.ingenia.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > > > IRIX (bogomips.ingenia.com) (Hope this is R4600 - otherwise BogoMIPS won't be too impressive ...) > login: root > Password: > IRIX Release 6.2 IP22 bogomips > Copyright 1987-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > Last login: Thu Apr 3 07:18:17 PST 1997 on :0 > bogomips 1# w > 8:07am up 50 mins, 2 users, load average: 0.38, 0.25, 0.10 > User tty from login@ idle JCPU PCPU what > demos q0 :0.0 8:02am 4 -csh > root q1 205.207.220.57 8:06am w > bogomips 2# > > It would seem, ladies and gentlemen, that we're off to the races! > After the conference sessions tonight I'll see about setting up the > tftpboot stuff. (Tips welcome!) Assuming you're using a Linux box as TFTP Server here are old versions of my config files. Iff(OS != Linux) while(1){swear();rtfm(damn);swear()} ;-) --- /etc/bootptab ------------------------------------------------------------ # /etc/net/bootptab: database for bootp server (/usr/net/in.bootpd) # Last update Mon 11/7/88 18:03 # Blank lines and lines beginning with '#' are ignored. # # Legend: # # first field -- hostname # (may be full domain name and probably should be) # # hd -- home directory # bf -- bootfile # cs -- cookie servers # ds -- domain name servers # gw -- gateways # ha -- hardware address # ht -- hardware type # im -- impress servers # ip -- host IP address # lg -- log servers # lp -- LPR servers # ns -- IEN-116 name servers # rl -- resource location protocol servers # sm -- subnet mask # tc -- template host (points to similar host entry) # to -- time offset (seconds) # ts -- time servers # # Be careful about including backslashes where they're needed. Weird (bad) # things can happen when a backslash is omitted where one is intended. # # First, define a global entry which specifies the stuff every host uses. # NOTE: THE VALUES BELOW ARE MEANT AS AN EXAMPLE! #allhost:hd=/tmp:bf=null:\ # :ds=145.71.35.1 145.71.32.1:\ # :sm=255.255.254.0:\ # :gw=145.71.35.1:\ # :ts=145.71.35.1:\ # :lp=145.71.35.1:\ # :to=-7200: # Define all individual entries. #hostname:ht=1:ha=ether_addr_in_hex:ip=ip_addr_in_dec:tc=allhost: # # # .diskless:bf=null:\ :sm=255.255.255.0:\ :to=7200: mipsy:hd=/tftpboot/193.98.169.17/:\ :rp=/tftpboot/193.98.169.17/:\ :ht=ethernet:\ :ha=004095e11dc2:\ :ip=193.98.169.17:\ :tc=.diskless: #mipsy:hd=/tftpboot/194.121.228.22/:\ # :rp=/tftpboot/194.121.228.22/:\ # :ht=ethernet:\ # :ha=004095e11dc2:\ # :ip=194.121.228.22:\ # :tc=.diskless: -- snipet from /etc/inetd.conf ----------------------------------------------- bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.bootpd (My bootpd (probably from Slackware 2.0 or 3.0) had to be replaced; it wasn't working at all ...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /tftpboot/193.98.169.17/ is Mipsy's NFS root, 004095e11dc2 it's 48 bit Ethernet hardware address. Note that the kernel makes some assumptions about where the NFS root is on the server (/tftpboot/); if you change that you need to pass some kernel options. My setup is such that I don't need to pass any options at all. Does that help? Ralf