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From: lidl@eng.umd.edu (Kurt J. Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Booting diskless vaxstations
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Date: 17 Aug 90 03:56:22 GMT
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For various weird reasons, I need to boot up a gaggle of diskless
VaxStation 2000's...

What I need to know is this -- what are the primary, secondary and
tertiary programs that a vax is supposed to load via mop?

I'd like to get it to load ultrixboot, then a kernel and then
get its swap space off a sun4 in the same room, that has lots of
disk space on it.

Basically, I'm at a loss -- I have already addnode'd a test machine,
and it sucks in the netload.sys file ok -- what does it want next?

(Telling me to RTFM is no good -- the Ultrix docs for diskless
operation are lacking, at least IMHO. If I had the source code,
I'd love to re-write the thing to be comprehensible to mere sys-admins.)

So basically I need help in setting up a diskless environment -- ideally
booting off a vax (mop_mom'ing the initial code) and then continuing
off the sun4 for root, swap and so forth.  Ideas, pointers and
experience gratefully accepted.

Thanks in advance.
							-Kurt
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