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Boot disk for VS2000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cniessen@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 30 04:47:02 1992
From: cniessen@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: cniessen@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 04:46:47 EDT
Hi-
I would like to know where I could find instructions for making a boot
floppy for a VS2000. I have an older one, and the local subnet in my
fraternity house has changed, necessitating a new disk. At the very least,
I need to know what the proper value is for install_pack in /etc/install/config.sh.
When I try to boot off of this disk, I get errors complaining of
that it cannot open /etc/athena/net.conf, and that it recieved incomplete
information, and then the boot dies. This actually happens, however, when
the machine is booting off of dua0, not the floppy. The installation of the
boot software onto the hard drive goes ok, but when it looks to the outside
world to configure itself, it cannot handle it. It gets its network address
since I changed the temporary address parameter to reflect the new subnet,
but I don't know where it gets the information for /etc/athena/net.conf.
I made a boot disk a couple of years ago, and I only remeber setting the
install packs and the temporray address parameters. The software on the
boot disk is something like rev 6.2, but I am not sure. The net.conf
file on the other machines in the cluster at tdc have the needed information.
sam-i-am:/etc/athena/net.conf
NET 18.155.0.0
MASK 255.255.0.0
BROADCAST 18.155.0.0
HIGHEST 18.155.2.252
LOWEST 18.155.2.2
GATEWAY 18.155.0.1
ADDRESS 18.155.0.24
How do I express this information (with the obviously changed address) to the
machine I am trying to reboot. (BTW, I do mean a hard reboot. The hard drive
had to be reformatted.)
If this is not the proper place to address such concerns, please tell me so
and let me know who to get in touch with.
If nothing else, please reduce my question to "How do I make a VS2000 boot
floppy?"
BTW, the current install packs are tantalos:vssys (on the floppy). Thanks
a lot
Chris Niessen
(The machine in question is thidwick.mit.edu)
