Is there any documentation on how to make a boot disk to connect to a QNX
RTP server? I have several machines I would like to be able to boot to our
QNX RTP server w/o having to install QNX on these machines.
This should be possible with bootp. Basically, you’ll have to:
- build a bootable image (will need to have different drivers in it
than the default image)
a. you’ll need io-net and appropriate driver dll for your net card in
/proc/boot
b. you’ll want to create prefixes (ln -P) to your boot servers
filesystem - configure bootpd to point to the manufactured image, and start it.
- put a bootp boot rom in network card of machines you want to netboot.
- in order to obtain a bootp boot rom, you can buy one, or you can
try http://nilo.sourceforge.net if you have access to a ROM burner.
hope this helps.
ps: caveat, I haven’t tried this, but I have no reason to suspect it
won’t work at this point.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gravis [mailto:mgravis@atsautomation.com]
Posted At: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 7:47 AM
Posted To: installation
Conversation: Diskless Workstation
Subject: Diskless Workstation
Is there any documentation on how to make a boot disk to connect to a
QNX
RTP server? I have several machines I would like to be able to boot to
our
QNX RTP server w/o having to install QNX on these machines.