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What is actually happening when I type boot net -install?

Is install a shell script? Where can I find it?

//Mikael

boot net tells the system to try and contact a boot server for the booting
process instead of a local disk. useful for diskless clients and for doing a
net install. I don't know about the -install option other than guessing that
it tells it to look for or request an install server. at the boot prom, you
can poke around for help on the boot option.

-mark

Quote:> What is actually happening when I type boot net -install?

> Is install a shell script? Where can I find it?

> //Mikael

Assuming you mean "boot net - install" (note the extra dash)...

1) boot net
This tells the OBP to find the hardware device called 'net' (usually an
alias for the primary ethernet device) and attempt to boot from it.
When this is an ethernet device, it sends a RARP for an IP, if
successful it attempts to TFTP a file from the answering machine with
the name of it's IP address in hex (possibly with an architecture
extention on the end).  The file tftped is called 'inetboot' and has
enough code to allow the machine to query a bootparam server to find the
OS host, and to NFS mount from that host.  Once done, the machine can
begin loading a kernel.  Up to that point, there's not really anything
that can be called a shell script.

2) The - install part
That tells the boot program that there are no direct flags to boot
requested (like -s or -v or -r), but that it should pass 'install' as an
argument to the kernel.  

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Take a look at the suninstall script on your jumpstart server.

Quote:> What is actually happening when I type boot net -install?

> Is install a shell script? Where can I find it?

> //Mikael