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-If you desire to add additional hosts to /etc/ethers, you do not need to
+If you desire to add additional hosts to
-Since each entry in /etc/ethers has a hostname, the netboot server needs to
+Since each entry in
-An /etc/hosts entry for resolving a hostname will look very similar to the one
+An
@@ -155,9 +155,9 @@-If both /etc/hosts and the nameserver have an entry for the host to be -netbooted, /etc/hosts will be used first (granted the order of -/etc/nsswitch.conf has not been changed from the default). +If both /etc/hosts and the nameserver have an entry for the host to be +netbooted,/etc/hosts will be used first (granted the order of +/etc/nsswitch.conf has not been changed from the default).@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
First, we will need to determine the options to use for rarpd. While there are more options than we'll cover here, these options should get you started As there is currently no init.d script for net-misc/iputils version of rarpd, -an entry will need to be added to /etc/conf.d/local.start if you want to enable +an entry will need to be added to
@@ -207,9 +207,9 @@/etc/conf.d/local.start if you want to enable rarpd servies at boot time. A sample entry is as follows;
-Next, options for rarpd will need to be set in /etc/conf.d/rarpd. For an
+Next, options for rarpd will need to be set in
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@Each tftp daemon will need a directory from which to serve files to tftp clients. The directory we will use for this howto will be /tftpboot. This -will appear as the root (/) directory to the clients when requests are +will appear as the root (
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@/ ) directory to the clients when requests are received. Additionally, we'll setup the system to run the tftp daemon with the user and group nobody.
-Then we will need to change the owner of /tftpboot so that it is owned by user
+Then we will need to change the owner of
After the net-misc/atftp package has been installed, it will need to be
configured. If tftpd services are desired at boot time, an entry to
-/etc/conf.d/local.start will need to be added as atftp has no init.d, inetd or
+
-Below is an example entry for atftpd in /etc/conf.d/local.start;
+Below is an example entry for atftpd in
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@tftp-hpa comes with an init.d and the accompanying conf.d configuration file. -Check to make sure that INIITFTPD_PATH and INITFTP_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/in.tftpd +Check to make sure that INIITFTPD_PATH and INITFTP_OPTS in
@@ -453,13 +453,13 @@/etc/conf.d/in.tftpd match those below;Make sure you have an image you want to use for netbooting. For a sparc or sparc64 netboot image, please check your local Gentoo distfiles mirror under -experimental/sparc/tftpboot for the appropriate image. We'll assume you are +
experimental/sparc/tftpboot for the appropriate image. We'll assume you are planning to boot a sparc64 host using the -gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-20040102.tftpboot image. +gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-20040102.tftpboot image.-Once you have an image, copy the image into /tftpboot; +Once you have an image, copy the image into
/tftpboot ;@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@Now, when the netboot client makes a tftp request, it looks for a file that is the hexidecimal number of its current IP address, and on some platforms an -.ARCH suffix. The hexidecimal number should use
capital characters. +.ARCH suffix. The hexidecimal number should usecapital characters.@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ As a way to keep track of what netboot image you are using, and to allow multiple machines to use the same netboot image, you can use a soft link to create the file with the hexidecimal value. To create this using our sample -sparc64 host and the gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-20040102.tftpboot, use the +sparc64 host and the
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-20040102.tftpboot , use the following command;If the netboot server is a Gentoo/LINUX system and experiences problems -installing the rarpd and tftpd packages, please search http://forums.gentoo.org +installing the rarpd and tftpd packages, please search
http://forums.gentoo.org andhttp://bugs.gentoo.org to see if this problem has been encountered by anyone else. If it has not, or the solutions found do not work, then please open a new bug athttp://bugs.gentoo.org @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@-Double check that the file the client needs does exist in /tftpboot. You can +Double check that the file the client needs does exist in
/tftpboot . You can confirm the filename it is requesting by looking in the system logs. Also, once this file exists, the client will try to load it. Sometimes, when the file is missing originally, it will freeze downloading the file once it @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@
- - Make sure the entry in /etc/ethers exists for the client in question. If + Make sure the entry in
/etc/ethers exists for the client in question. If the MAC address is incorrect and/or the netboot server cannot resolve the hostname for the client, it cannot respond with the needed information. -- gentoo-doc-cvs@gentoo.org mailing list