Thanks Matthew, but sorry my real question might be not specific enough.
OK. The 742 is basically the VME version of the 715/Scorpio, >There's an rboot daemon available for Linux; if you run Debian, just apt-get >install it; if not there's one on the puffin.external.hp.com site somewhere. will give it a try, I'm running basically a SuSE system here, with a ton of my own modifications. ...:-) >>>> I just booted a couple of 715s from an rboot server... First of all, you need to specify the machine in the /etc/rbootd.conf file. Looks like you have this working already, but here it is: 08:00:09:35:21:18 guernsey Then you need to set up bootp/dhcp. The dhcpd is capable of serving both; I use bootp. Here's the stanza I used for this machine in /etc/dhcpd.conf: host guernsey { # 715/50 hardware ethernet 08:00:09:35:21:18; fixed-address 15.1.50.253; } Finally, set up NFS. My /etc/exports looks like this: /tftpboot 15.0.0.0/255.0.0.0(rw,no_root_squash) >>>>> Did that, what I'm missing here is where do you tell the diskless machine that it needs to boot a kernel from a network server? And after that where is the root file system? >>>> Now my machine attempts to mount /tftpboot/15.1.50.253, so I have to create a directory hierarchy there. >>>> is the structure /tftpboot/IP-Adress default? If I recall right from the time I used to run a HP cluster the rbootd only transmits lif files, right? Do the ones I have downloaded include the kernel? Or just the primary boot loader? Is there a way to build the lif files? A lifls on HP-UX gives an error message, saying the the file isn't a lif file. excuse this bloody notes mail client !!!!! Cheers Martin