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authortsutsui <tsutsui@NetBSD.org>2006-03-25 13:42:41 +0000
committertsutsui <tsutsui@NetBSD.org>2006-03-25 13:42:41 +0000
commitc71f2558cc22c19b3973826e19bf5dc0884df36b (patch)
tree3d8bc8787758bf5953138e94a75ff9f49895c2f2 /distrib
parentc6d79d21de1960847b6c63e0335c3329af06f671 (diff)
Add more description about rbootd(8) and YAMAMORI Takenori's
sun-rbootd package for NetBSD/hp300 and OpenBSD/hp300, which works on more other OSs including SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, HP-UX 10, HP-UX 9, NEWS-OS 4.x, FreeBSD, and Linux.
Diffstat (limited to 'distrib')
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/common/netboot14
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/hp300/prep25
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/common/netboot b/distrib/notes/common/netboot
index 01941c10281..b055e025868 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/common/netboot
+++ b/distrib/notes/common/netboot
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: netboot,v 1.25 2006/03/25 13:19:57 tsutsui Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: netboot,v 1.26 2006/03/25 13:42:41 tsutsui Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2004 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -235,6 +235,18 @@ you can achieve this with:
.No # Ic "/etc/rc.d/rbootd restart"
.disp)
.Pp
+If your netboot server is not running
+.Nx
+but other OSs (like Linux, Solaris etc.), you have to use
+YAMAMORI Takenori's
+.Li sun-rbootd
+package instead of native
+.Xr rbootd 8 .
+Please refer the "Setting up the rbootd server" section
+in the NetBSD Diskless HOW-TO
+.Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/network/netboot/rbootd/
+for details.
+.Pp
.It
.\} \" ! \n[hp300]:\n[hp700]
.if \n[evbppc]:\n[hp300]:\n[hp700]:\n[macppc]:\n[next68k]:\n[sparc]:\n[sparc64] \{\
diff --git a/distrib/notes/hp300/prep b/distrib/notes/hp300/prep
index cd3cb9ba80b..97515d5f711 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/hp300/prep
+++ b/distrib/notes/hp300/prep
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.17 2003/07/26 17:07:04 salo Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.18 2006/03/25 13:42:41 tsutsui Exp $
.
There are two installation tools available.
The traditional miniroot
@@ -21,26 +21,27 @@ The configurations described in this document are as follows:
.(bullet -compact
\*M netboots
.Li SYS_UBOOT
-and then runs the miniroot installation tools or a purely diskless
-installation from a
+from a
.Nx
-server on the same subnet (you must have root access).
-Other server platforms will work, but are described in the NetBSD Diskless
+server running
+.Xr rbootd 8 ,
+or other server platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX etc.) with
+YAMAMORI Takenori's
+.Li sun-rbootd
+package and then runs the miniroot installation tools or a purely diskless
+installation from a server on the same subnet (you must have root access).
+The more infomation is described in the NetBSD Diskless
HOW-TO.
.Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
+and
+.Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/network/netboot/rbootd/
.Pp
.It
\*M loads
.Li SYS_UBOOT
from a local disk, tape, or floppy
and then runs the miniroot installation tools or a purely diskless
-installation from a
-.Nx
-server on the same subnet (you must have root access).
-Other server platforms will work, but are described in the NetBSD Diskless
-HOW-TO.
-.Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
-You will need
+installation from a server as described above. You will need
.Tn HP-UX
on your \*M if it does not have a SCSI interface or a floppy drive.
.Pp