12.3.1. Setup Instructions

1. Find a machine that will be your server. This machine will require enough disk space to hold the FreeBSD 2.0 binaries and have bootp, tftp and NFS services available. Tested machines:
   • HP9000/8xx running HP-UX 9.04 or later (pre 9.04 doesn't work)

   • Sun/Solaries 2.3. (you may need to get bootp)

2. Set up a bootp server to provide the client with IP, gateway, netmask.

   diskless:\
           :ht=ether:\
           :ha=0000c01f848a:\
           :sm=255.255.255.0:\
           :hn:\
           :ds=192.1.2.3:\
           :ip=192.1.2.4:\
           :gw=192.1.2.5:\
           :vm=rfc1048:
   

3. Set up a TFTP server (on same machine as bootp server) to provide booting information to client. The name of this file is cfg.X.X.X.X (or /tftpboot/cfg.X.X.X.X, it will try both) where X.X.X.X is the IP address of the client. The contents of this file can be any valid netboot commands. Under 2.0, netboot has the following commands:

   help			- print help list
   ip <X.X.X.X>		- print/set client's IP address
   server <X.X.X.X>	- print/set bootp/tftp server address
   netmask <X.X.X.X>	- print/set netmask
   hostname <name>		- print/set hostname
   kernel <name>		- print/set kernel name
   rootfs <ip:/fs>		- print/set rootfilesystem
   swapfs <ip:/fs>		- print/set swapfilesystem
   swapsize <size>		- set diskless swapsize in Kbytes
   diskboot		- boot from disk
   autoboot		- continue boot process
   

   A typical completely diskless cfg file might contain:

   rootfs 192.1.2.3:/rootfs/myclient
   swapfs 192.1.2.3:/swapfs
   swapsize 20000
   hostname myclient.mydomain
   

   A cfg file for a machine with local swap might contain:

   rootfs 192.1.2.3:/rootfs/myclient
   hostname myclient.mydomain
   

4. Ensure that your NFS server has exported the root (and swap if applicable) filesystems to your client, and that the client has root access to these filesystems A typical /etc/exports file on FreeBSD might look like:

   /rootfs/myclient -maproot=0:0 myclient.mydomain
   /swapfs -maproot=0:0 myclient.mydomain
   

   And on HP-UX:

   /rootfs/myclient -root=myclient.mydomain
   /swapfs -root=myclient.mydomain
   

5. If you are swapping over NFS (completely diskless configuration) create a swap file for your client using touch. If your swapfs command has the argument /swapfs as in the example above, the swapfile for myclient will be called /swapfs/swap.X.X.X.X where X.X.X.X is the client's IP addr, eg:

   # touch /swapfs/swap.192.1.2.4
   

6. Unpack the root filesystem in the directory the client will use for its root filesystem (/rootfs/myclient in the example above).
   • On HP-UX systems: The server should be running HP-UX 9.04 or later for HP9000/800 series machines. Prior versions don't allow the creation of device files over NFS.

   • When extracting /dev in /rootfs/myclient, beware that some systems (HPUX) will not create device files that FreeBSD is happy with. You may have to go to single user mode on the first bootup (press control-c during the bootup phase), cd /dev and do a "sh ./MAKEDEV all" from the client to fix this.

7. Run netboot.com on the client or make an EPROM from the netboot.rom file