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-.\" $NetBSD: diskless.8,v 1.11 1997/06/16 07:50:35 mrg Exp $
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-.Dd October 2, 1994
-.Dt DISKLESS 8
-.Os
-.Sh NAME
-.Nm diskless
-.Nd booting a system over the network
-.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The ability to boot a machine over the network is useful for
-.Xr diskless
-or
-.Xr dataless
-machines, or as a temporary measure while repairing or
-re-installing filesystems on a local disk.
-This file provides a general description of the interactions between
-a client and its server when a client is booting over the network.
-The general description is followed by specific instructions for
-configuring a server for diskless Sun clients.
-.Pp
-.Sh OPERATION
-When booting a system over the network, there are three
-phases of interaction between client and server:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width 1.2 -compact
-.It 1.
-The PROM (or stage-1 bootstrap) loads a boot program.
-.It 2.
-The boot program loads a kernel.
-.It 3.
-The kernel does NFS mounts for root.
-.El
-.Pp
-Each of these phases are described in further detail below.
-.Pp
-In phase 1, the PROM loads a boot program. PROM designs
-vary widely, so this phase is inherently machine-specific.
-Sun machines use
-.Tn RARP
-to determine the client's
-.Tn IP
-address and then use
-.Tn TFTP
-to download a boot program from whoever sent the
-.Tn RARP
-reply. HP 300-series machines use the
-.Tn HP Remote Maintenance Protocol
-to download a boot program.
-Typical personal computers may load a
-network boot program either from diskette or
-using a special PROM on the network card.
-.Pp
-In phase 2, the boot program loads a kernel. Operation in
-this phase depends on the design of the boot program.
-(The design described here is the one used by Sun and NetBSD/hp300.)
-The boot program:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width 2.2 -compact
-.It 2.1
-gets the client IP address using
-.Tn RARP .
-.It 2.2
-gets the client name and server
-.Tn IP
-address by broadcasting an
-.Tn RPC / BOOTPARAMS / WHOAMI
-request with the client IP address.
-.It 2.3
-gets the server path for this client's
-root using an
-.Tn RPC / BOOTPARAMS / GETFILE
-request with the client name.
-.It 2.4
-gets the root file handle by calling
-.Xr mountd 8
-with the server path for the client root.
-.It 2.5
-gets the kernel file handle by calling
-.Tn NFS
-lookup on the root file handle.
-.It 2.6
-loads the kernel using
-.Tn NFS
-read calls on the kernel file handle.
-.It 2.7
-transfers control to the kernel entry point.
-.El
-.Pp
-In phase 3, the kernel does NFS mounts for root.
-The kernel repeats much of the work done by the boot program
-because there is no standard way for the boot program to pass
-the information it gathered on to the kernel.
-The procedure used by the kernel is as follows:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width 2.2 -compact
-.It 3.1
-The kernel finds a boot server using the same procedure
-as described in steps 2.1 and 2.2 above.
-.It 3.2
-The kernel gets the
-.Tn NFS
-file handle for root using the same procedure
-as described in steps 2.3 through 2.5 above.
-.It 3.3
-The kernel calls the
-.Tn NFS
-getattr function to get the last-modified time of the root
-directory, and uses it to check the system clock.
-.El
-.Sh CONFIGURATION
-Before a client can boot over the network,
-its server must be configured correctly.
-This example will demonstrate how a Sun client
-might be configured -- other clients should be similar.
-.Pp
-Assuming the client's hostname is to be
-"myclient",
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width 2.1 -compact
-.It 1.
-Add an entry to
-.Pa /etc/ethers
-corresponding to the client's ethernet address:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-8:0:20:7:c5:c7 myclient
-.Ed
-This will be used by
-.Xr rarpd 8 .
-.Pp
-.It 2.
-Assign an IP address for myclient in your
-.Pa /etc/hosts
-or DNS database:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-192.197.96.12 myclient
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.It 3.
-If booting a Sun machine, ensure that
-.Pa /etc/inetd.conf
-is configured to run
-.Xr tftpd 8
-in the directory
-.Pa /tftpboot .
-.Pp
-If booting an HP 300-series machine, ensure that
-.Pa /etc/rbootd.conf
-is configured properly to transfer the boot program to the client.
-An entry might look like this:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-08:00:09:01:23:E6 SYS_UBOOT # myclient
-.Ed
-.Pp
-See the
-.Xr rbootd 8
-manual page for more information.
-.Pp
-.It 4.
-If booting a SPARC machine, install a copy of the appropriate diskless boot
-loader (such as
-.Pa /usr/mdec/boot )
-in the
-.Pa /tftpboot
-directory.
-Make a link such that the boot program is
-accessible by a file name composed of the client's IP address
-in HEX, a dot, and the architecture name (all upper case).
-For example:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-# cd /tftpboot
-# ln -s boot C0C5600C.SUN4
-.Ed
-.Pp
-For a Sun3 machine, the name would be just C0C5600C
-(the sun3 PROM does not append the architecture name). The name
-used is architecture dependent, it simply has to match what the
-booting client's PROM wishes to it to be.
-If the client's PROM fails to fetch the expected file,
-.Xr tcpdump 8
-can be used to discover which filename the client is trying to read.
-.Pp
-If booting an HP 300-series machine, ensure that the network boot program
-.Pa SYS_UBOOT
-(which may be called
-.Pa uboot.lif
-before installation)
-is installed in the directory
-.Pa /usr/mdec/rbootd .
-
-.It 5.
-Add myclient to the bootparams database
-.Pa /etc/bootparams :
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-myclient root=server:/export/myclient/root
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.It 6.
-Build the swap file for myclient:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-# mkdir /export/myclient
-# cd /export/myclient
-# dd if=/dev/zero of=swap bs=16k count=1024
-.Ed
-This creates a 16 Megabyte swap file.
-.Pp
-.It 7.
-Populate myclient's
-.Pa /
-filesystem on the server. How this is done depends on the
-client architecture and the version of the NetBSD distribution.
-It can be as simple as copying and modifying the server's root
-filesystem, or perhaps you need to get those files out of the
-standard binary distribution.
-.Pp
-Note that, unlike SunOS, you need to create a mount point for the
-client's swap:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-# mkdir /export/myclient/root/swap
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.It 8.
-Export the required filesystems in
-.Pa /etc/exports :
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-/usr -ro myclient
-# for SunOS:
-# /export/myclient -rw=myclient,root=myclient
-# for NetBSD:
-/export/myclient -maproot=root -alldirs myclient
-.Ed
-.Pp
-If the server and client are of the same architecture, then the client
-can share the server's
-.Pa /usr
-filesystem (as is done above).
-If not, you must build a properly fleshed out
-.Pa /usr
-partition for the client in some other place.
-.Pp
-If your server was a sparc, and your client a sun3,
-you might create and fill
-.Pa /export/usr.sun3
-and then use the following
-.Pa /etc/exports
-lines:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-/export/usr.sun3 -ro myclient
-/export/myclient -rw=myclient,root=myclient
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.It 9.
-Copy and customize at least the following files in
-.Pa /export/myclient/root :
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-# cd /export/myclient/root/etc
-# cp fstab.nfs fstab
-# cp /etc/hosts hosts
-# echo myclient > myname
-# echo 192.197.96.12 > hostname.le0
-.Ed
-.Pp
-Note that "le0" above should be replaced with the name of
-the network interface that the client will use for booting.
-.Pp
-.It 10.
-Correct the critical mount points and the swap file in the client's
-.Pa /etc/fstab
-(which will be
-.Pa /export/myclient/root/etc/fstab )
-ie.
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-myserver:/export/myclient/root / nfs rw 0 0
-myserver:/usr /usr nfs rw 0 0
-myserver:/export/myclient/swap none swap sw,nfsmntpt=/swap
-.Ed
-.Pp
-Note, you must specify the swap file in
-.Pa /etc/fstab
-or it will not be used!
-.El
-.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/rbootd -compact
-.It Pa /etc/ethers
-Ethernet addresses of known clients
-.It Pa /etc/bootparams
-client root pathname
-.It Pa /etc/exports
-exported NFS mount points
-.It Pa /etc/rbootd.conf
-configuration file for HP Remote Boot Daemon
-.It Pa /tftpboot
-location of boot programs loaded by the Sun PROM
-.It Pa /usr/mdec/rbootd
-location of boot programs loaded by the HP Boot ROM
-.El
-.Sh "SEE ALSO"
-.Xr bootparams 5 ,
-.Xr ethers 5 ,
-.Xr exports 5 ,
-.Xr bootparamd 8 ,
-.Xr mountd 8 ,
-.Xr nfsd 8 ,
-.Xr rarpd 8 ,
-.Xr rbootd 8 ,
-.Xr reboot 8 ,
-.Xr tftpd 8