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131 lines
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Setting up a Diskless FreeBSD system
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netboot.com/netboot.rom allow you to boot your FreeBSD machine over the
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network and run FreeBSD without having a disk on your client. Under 2.0
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it is now possible to have local swap. Swapping over NFS is also still
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supported.
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The list of supported Ethernet cards:
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Western Digital/SMC 8003, 8013, 8216 and compatibles
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NE1000/NE2000 and compatibles (requires recompile)
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Setup Instructions
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- Find a machine that will be your server. This machine will require
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enough disk space to hold the FreeBSD 2.0 binaries and have bootp, tftp
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and NFS services available.
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tested machines:
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HP9000/8xx running HP-UX 9.04 or later (pre 9.04 doesn't work)
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Sun/Solaries 2.3. (you may need to get bootp)
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- Set up a bootp server to provide the client with IP, gateway, netmask
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sample entry:
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diskless:\
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:ht=ether:\
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:ha=0000c01f848a:\
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:sm=255.255.255.0:\
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:hn:\
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:ds=192.1.2.3:\
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:ip=192.1.2.4:\
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:gw=192.1.2.5:\
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:vm=rfc1048:
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- Set up a TFTP server (on same machine as bootp server) to provide
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booting information to client. The name of this file is cfg.X.X.X.X
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(or /tftpboot/cfg.X.X.X.X, it will try both) where X.X.X.X is the
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IP address of the client. The contents of this file can be any valid
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netboot commands. Under 2.0, netboot has the following commands:
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help - print help list
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ip <X.X.X.X> - print/set client's IP address
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server <X.X.X.X> - print/set bootp/tftp server address
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netmask <X.X.X.X> - print/set netmask
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hostname <name> - print/set hostname
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kernel <name> - print/set kernel name
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rootfs <ip:/fs> - print/set rootfilesystem
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swapfs <ip:/fs> - print/set swapfilesystem
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swapsize <size> - set diskless swapsize in Kbytes
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diskboot - boot from disk
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autoboot - continue boot process
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A typical completely diskless cfg file might contain:
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rootfs 192.1.2.3:/rootfs/myclient
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swapfs 192.1.2.3:/swapfs
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swapsize 20000
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hostname myclient.mydomain
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A cfg file for a machine with local swap might contain:
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rootfs 192.1.2.3:/rootfs/myclient
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hostname myclient.mydomain
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- Ensure that your NFS server has exported the root (and swap if applicable)
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filesystems to your client, and that the client has root access to these
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filesystems
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A typical /etc/exports file might look like:
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(FreeBSD)
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/rootfs/myclient -maproot=0:0 myclient.mydomain
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/swapfs -maproot=0:0 myclient.mydomain
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(HP-UX)
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/rootfs/myclient -root=myclient.mydomain
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/swapfs -root=myclient.mydomain
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- If you are swapping over NFS (completely diskless configuration) create a
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swap file for your client using touch. If your 'swapfs' command
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has the argument /swapfs as in the example above, the swapfile for myclient
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will be called /swapfs/swap.X.X.X.X where X.X.X.X is the client's IP addr.
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eg: # touch /swapfs/swap.192.1.2.4
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- Unpack the root filesystem in the directory the client will use for its
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root filesystem (/rootfs/myclient in the example above).
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*** On HP-UX systems: The server should be running HP-UX 9.04 or
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later for HP9000/800 series machines. Prior versions don't allow
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the creation of device files over NFS.
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*** When extracting /dev in /rootfs/myclient, beware that some systems
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(HPUX) will not create device files that FreeBSD is happy with.
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You may have to go to single user mode on the first bootup
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(press control-c during the bootup phase), cd /dev and do a
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"sh ./MAKEDEV all" from the client to fix this.
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- Run netboot.com on the client or make an EPROM from the netboot.rom file
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Using Shared / and /usr filesystems
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At present there isn't an officially sanctioned way of doing this, although
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I have been using a shared /usr filesystem and individual / filesystems for
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each client. If anyone has any suggestions on how to do this cleanly, please
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let me and/or the core group know.
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Compiling netboot for specific setups
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Netboot can be compiled to support NE1000/2000 cards by changing the
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configuration in /sys/i386/boot/netboot/Makefile. See the comments
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at the top of this file.
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Martin Renters martin@innovus.com
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