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If you don’t already have one, the easiest way to create a bootp server is to have it
reside on the same LAN subnet as the HW400c/2. Creating bootp relay agents for

LAN segments is beyond the scope of this document.

o set up a server with BOOTP with TFTP ability in a standard Linux box,

uncomment (or add) these two lines in inetd.conf)

tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.tftpd
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd bootpd -d 4

ou may also run bootpd from the command line by entering;

bootpd –i –d 4

See the man page bootpd(8) for details. To run bootpd from the command line it

ill be necessary to disable the bootpd service if it has already been enabled and

/etc directory. See the man page bootptab(5), and the example below.

xample /etc/bootptab

ault:\

:ds=10.0.0.200:\

:hn:
johnboy:ht=1:ha=00a0d6123456:ip=10.0.100.2:ef=:bf=uImage:gw=10.0.0.120
borgus:ht=1:ha=000012342222:ip=10.0.100.3:ef=:bf=uImage:gw=10.0.0.120
neumann:ht=1:ha=000012343333:ip=10.0.100.4:ef=:bf=uImage:gw=10.0.0.120

.5 Booting the W400c/2

here are three

wnlo

• Boot a kernel from the on board Disk on Chip

This section describes the processes necessary to boot using each of the three
methods. In each case, the boot firmware U-boot, loaded in on-board flash, is
necessary to initialize the HW400c/2. The boot instructions for three methods
mentioned above diverge slightly from that point.

bootp servers on different

w
running through some other mechanism.

If one does not already exist, it will be necessary to create a bootp table, bootptab
in the

E

.def
:hd=/usr/boot:bf=null:\

:sm=255.255.255.0:\
:gw=10.0.0.2:\

ways to boot the Linux OS on the HW400c/2,

• Download a tftp image with bootp
• Do

ad a tftp image with a static IP address

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