Discuss netboot on 3000/xxx and other old SRM systems. Reported by Charles.
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.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.15 1999/03/25 21:13:04 ross Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.16 1999/04/19 23:38:38 ross Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.Pp
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\~\~\~\~\~
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.Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/alpha
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.Pp
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At the time of this
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release, the URL for the netbooting instructions is:
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.Pp
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with:
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.Dl "\*>\*>\*> set ewa0_protocols bootp"
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.Pp
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Systems with the
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.Dq old SRM
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The 3000 series of Turbochannel systems and certain other models use
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.Em old SRM ,
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do not have a
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.Fl Ic proto
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option and use different device names. They also tend to not netboot very
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well so you probably don't need to worry about this section.
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well so you probably don't need to worry about this section. However, if you
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want to give it a try, note the following differences:
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.Bl -bullet -offset indent
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.It
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There is no
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.Fl Ar proto
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argument, or
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.Ic ewa0_protocols
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variable. Old SRM uses bootp if the device name is given as
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.Sy ez0 .
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.It
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The use of the
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.Xr setnetbootinfo 8
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program will probably also be necessary, as it is unlikely that an SRM
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from that era will properly communicate the ethernet HW address to the
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boot program.
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.It
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Example:
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.Dl \*>\*>\*>\ boot\ ez0
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.El
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.El
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