Booting diskless vaxstations
Kurt J. Lidl
lidl at eng.umd.edu
Fri Aug 17 13:56:22 AEST 1990
For various weird reasons, I need to boot up a gaggle of diskless
VaxStation 2000's...
What I need to know is this -- what are the primary, secondary and
tertiary programs that a vax is supposed to load via mop?
I'd like to get it to load ultrixboot, then a kernel and then
get its swap space off a sun4 in the same room, that has lots of
disk space on it.
Basically, I'm at a loss -- I have already addnode'd a test machine,
and it sucks in the netload.sys file ok -- what does it want next?
(Telling me to RTFM is no good -- the Ultrix docs for diskless
operation are lacking, at least IMHO. If I had the source code,
I'd love to re-write the thing to be comprehensible to mere sys-admins.)
So basically I need help in setting up a diskless environment -- ideally
booting off a vax (mop_mom'ing the initial code) and then continuing
off the sun4 for root, swap and so forth. Ideas, pointers and
experience gratefully accepted.
Thanks in advance.
-Kurt
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