Ultrix diskless client weirdness

[Michael Almond]

In article <3501 at dali> osyjm at caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
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>I have a VS2000 booted diskless off of a DS5000/200.  I've had to go through
>and change IP addresses on these machines, and now the VS won't boot.

Okay, I've gone through this same problem.  If you look in /etc/dms on the
DS5000 you see that it is actually a shell script and this is how I found
out how it adds a client and thus how to avoid re-installing a client.

There are some commands you can use to examine the 'node' database that
mop uses.  They are:

	getnode - display one or more entries from the nodes database
	addnode - add or change an entry in the nodes database
	remnode - remove one or more entries from the nodes database

You con't modify an entry in the database, but you can remove it and then
add it back in the node database, leaving the client directory and other dms
files uneffected.

Try 'getnode <hostname>', where <hostnaem> is whatever you call it when
working with dms.  This should show you the old ethernet address for your
VS2000.

Now 'remnode <hostname>' and then 'addnode <ethernet-address> <node-name>'.

It's been a while since I've done this, but I just looked over the /etc/dms
script again to recall the steps.

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