4. Bootarontas ton workstation

4.1 Xrhsimopoiwntas mia boot eprom

Mia poy proswpika den exw akomh xrhsimopoihsei ena tetoio 8hrio, mporw na sas dwsw monaxa tis akoloy8es ypodeijeis (xarh ston Christian Leutloff <leutloff@sundancer.tng.oche.de>) :

• Den mporeite na xrhsimopoihsete "synh8ismenes" bootroms.
• Yparxei ena programma netboot , apo ton Gero Kuhlmann, poy ftiaxnei bootroms gia Linux, kai dinei perissoteres plhrofories. To netboot einai dia8esimo apo ton plhsiestero mirror toy Linux, h san programma mesa sth distribution toy Debian (netboot-0.4).
• Diabaste prosektika thn tekmhriwsh ths boot eprom sas.
• Pi8anotata prepei na energopoihsete to tftpd ston server, alla ayto ejartatai apo ton tropo, me ton opoio h boot eprom sas fortwnei ton pyrhna.
• Ka8e plhroforia gia pwlhtes boot eproms gia to Linux, opws tis perigracame parapanw, einai eyprosdekth - ka8ws den exei o ka8enas prosbash se eprom programmer :( (eidika sthn Eyrwph, opoy zw). Tis plhrofories 8a tis perilabw edw meta.

4.2 Xrhsimopoiwntas mia disketa sketoy pyrhna

An exete kanei export to root filesystem me to swsto onoma gia thn default onomasia, kai o NFS server sas einai taytoxrona kai RARP server (poy shmainei oti oi HY briskontai sto idio ypodiktyo), tote mporeite apla na bootarete ton pyrhna me cating se mia disketa. (Prepei na 8esete to root device toy pyrhna ws 0:255.) Ayto proupo8etei oti to root directory ston server einai /tftpboot/IP-Address (ayth h timh mporei n' allajei, otan kanoyme compile ton pyrhna).

4.3 Xrhsimopoiwntas enan bootloader & to RARP

Dwste ston pyrhna oles tis aparaithtes parametroys kata thn ekkinhsh, kai pros8este : nfsroot=<server-ip-addr>:</path/to/mount> , opoy : server-ip-addr einai h dieu8ynsh IP toy NFS-server sas, kai /path/to/mount einai to path pros to root directory.

Ypodeijeis :

• Otan xrhsimopoieite to LILO , skef8eite na xrhsimopoihsete thn idiothta "lock" : Apla plhktrologhste mia fora oles tis swstes parametroys, kai pros8este "lock" . Thn epomenh fora poy 8a bootarete, afhste to LILO na ftasei se timeout.
• Otan ftiaxnete mia disketa gia enan sygkekrimeno ws, mporeite epishs na xrhsimopoihsete thn idiothta append= sto lilo.conf .

4.4 Xrhsimopoiwntas enan bootloader xwris to RARP

Mazi me to nfsroot , dwste ena orisma pyrhna sth grammh entolwn : nfsaddrs=<wst-IP>:<srv-IP>:<gw-IP>:<netm-IP>:<hostname> . O pyrhnas 8a ry8misei to eth0 me tis dedomenes parametroys :

wst-IP

Dieu8ynsh IP toy HY

srv-IP

Dieu8ynsh IP toy NFS-server

gw-IP

gateway

netm-IP

netmask

hostname

onoma ypologisth