[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to boot the 742 diskless. It only recognizes rboot protocol, so I > set up the 715 running HP-UX as the server. Now I'm really confused how the > boot sequence runs.
HP-UX works as the rboot/bootp server. > I found a lifimage on the debian server which brings the system up, asking > install questions from a menu, but i did not succed to mount the nfs root > file system, no error message either. HP-UX does NOT work as an NFS server for *root* file sytems. /dev nodes are built for HPUX when unpacked and the bit layout is different for linux. So linux can't do anything with /dev nodes it gets from the HPUX server. And /etc/exports is intepreted differently than for linux: /tftpboot/aachen async,root=15.8.80.77 (this is an entry I once upon a time used inside HP) > Can anybody brief me how to boot a proper diskless system? My advice is the use another (x86 or parisc) linux box for NFS root. I would expect the regular debian docs cover this. grant