I did something similar to you. Tftp image, ifconfig and route add. Then I NFS mounted the bas e modules, went back to the install screen and away it went. I never looked to see if there was an FTP or anything, but NFS worked great.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 5:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Ack! tftpboot.img - Whats the point? Ok...I am trying to install on an "effectivly diskless" Sun IPC... as I said in an earlier message...I got it to boot with tftpboot.img. I am very happy about this but...it is kind of useless to boot with tftpboot and then use floppies to install the kernel mods, base ssyetm, etc. I noticed ifconfig exists and seems to work great (just ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.20) but... there seesm to be NOTHING on the install image that uses the network! I couldn't ftp, or even tftp...much less ping. I really have no other way of getting these files onto the IPC... Why doesn't tftpboot.img include ftp (or at least tftp) since this is a netboot, it is not constrained by the size of a disk...so why not allow it to get bigger and contain a few usefull utilities. If I could ftp packages to the drive and then install I would be all set. Is there any way to build tftpboot on an i386? I could really use some stuff like ftp on mine...maybe a few differnt tftpboot.img files for differnt types of installs? maybe I missed something? can I nfsmount (I tried but...maybe I did it wrong) -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "All authority is quite degrading." -- Oscar Wilde << File: ATT00005.att >> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
