From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <76e6091ee713d2fb1857a0dd75d58ac0@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] PXE In-Reply-To: <20030916191304.H9751@cackle.proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-pyrtmuveqllhykugjjqejjpgic" Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:45:12 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3ce58dd0-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-pyrtmuveqllhykugjjqejjpgic Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit No documentation. I have to finish the PXE stuff to make it a little easier. Right now, I use PXE to get a 9load and then type the real kernel address by hand when 9load prompts. What I intend to do is have an extra entry in the ndb that indicates which file to download for PXE and which for 9load. I can distinguish using the vendor id (or some such). I'm on vacation but I'll finish it when I get back, not a lot of work. --upas-pyrtmuveqllhykugjjqejjpgic Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Tue Sep 16 13:14:38 EDT 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Tue Sep 16 13:14:35 EDT 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 7AA2719BBA; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:14:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.6.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id AE25F199D7; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:14:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id B7DB419B90; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:13:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cackle.proxima.alt.za (cackle.proxima.alt.za [196.30.44.141]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 5D4B4199D7 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:13:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cackle.proxima.alt.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cackle.proxima.alt.za (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h8GHD8ef010947 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:13:08 +0200 (SAST) Received: (from lucio@localhost) by cackle.proxima.alt.za (8.12.9/8.12.3/Submit) id h8GHD6nm010946 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:13:06 +0200 (SAST) From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: <20030916191304.H9751@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Mail-Followup-To: 9fans mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us Organization: Proxima Research & Development Subject: [9fans] PXE Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Reply-To: lucio@proxima.alt.za List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:13:05 +0200 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_ORBS version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) I now have a VXL Precio diskless workstation that I would like to run Plan 9 on. I can convince it to use PXE to boot, but I don't know quite what's involved to make it work properly. Right now, it looks like it doesn't even register a DHCP requests, but I really don't know enough about PXE (in fact, I think I know precisely nothing about PXE) to judge. What seems I ought to know, anyway, is how I can tuck a plan9.ini somewhere for 9pxeload to find it, if I can get PXE to load it, of course. Is anyone preapred to give me a crash course on PXE for Plan 9? Or point me to relevant documentation? ++L --upas-pyrtmuveqllhykugjjqejjpgic--