[14606] in Athena Bugs
NetProb ticket #4415, Install procedures not documented?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mbarker@MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 26 15:21:48 1996
From: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 15:21:41 -0400
To: vrt@MIT.EDU
Cc: jhawk@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
I think the procedure currently is
halt the target machine
bring it up and enter the command monitor
setenv diskless 1
setenv netaddr network_address_of_client
setenv SystemPartition "bootp()server_name:"
setenv OSLoader irix-sgi54-46xz
init
start the machine up
46xz - 4600 with xz
46xl - 4600 with xl
50xz - 5000 with xz
50xl - 5000 with xl
There also should be instructions in
http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/FY97/install/main/main.html
(incidentally, would you like to review this? thank you!)
Thank you.
mike
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>Subject: Install procedures not documented?
>From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
>
>
>It seems a bug that the procedures for reinstalling
>client workstations don't seem to be documented
>anywhere that I can find (the bootkit locker
>comes to mind, but...).
>
>In particular, tonight we attempted to reinstall
>opus, an SGI in the sipb office, and the only instructions
>we could scrounge up:
>
> halt the target machine
> bring it up and enter the command monitor
> setenv diskless 1
> setenv netaddr network_address_of_client
> setenv SystemPartition "bootp()server_name:"
> setenv OSLoader unix
> init
> start the machine up
>
>don't seem to work. bootp forwarding is enabled for the 18.70 to both
>kick-me and pepe-lepew; enabling manual forwarding on some other
>machine (to pepe-lepew) doesn't help -- pepe-lepew doesn't seem to
>answer the bootp requests.
>
>It occurs to me that if I wanted to reinstall a DECstation I'd
>be hard-pressed to remember the necessary magic to make it boot.
>
>A Sun, I think I could manage, but with the recent changes, perhaps
>not :-)
>
>Thanks.
>
>--jhawk
>
