[comp.unix.ultrix] Seeking "ultrixboot" for DS3100s -- where is it?

cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) (09/12/89)

 We've got some DS3100s that we're trying to set up. They have local
disks, and we'd like them to boot as diskful clients (well, with root
on their own local disks, at least), but we don't have any tape drives
on them (at the moment, we've brought them up as diskless clients of
our 3800). I can them booting remotely with the local rz disk as root
and swap, but I can't get them to boot directly from it; they tell me
"can't open ultrixboot" and abort. So, does anyone know where the PMAX
ultrixboot is hiding, and how to convince the server end of the
diskless client stuff to load it off the tape?

 Thanks acres in advance; I'll post a summary of anything I learn
(along with how I persuaded the system to boot with only / local if
anyone is interested).

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hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) (09/12/89)

newfs puts the boot stuff in the boot partition.
From the newfs(8) man page:
     mkfs, then builds the file system by forking mkfs and, if
     the file system is a root partition and installs the neces-
     sary bootstrap program in the initial 16 sectors of the dev-
     ice.
g.
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michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) (09/13/89)

In article <11584@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU
(George Hartzell) writes:
> newfs puts the boot stuff in the boot partition.
> From the newfs(8) man page:
>      mkfs, then builds the file system by forking mkfs and, if
>      the file system is a root partition and installs the neces-
>      sary bootstrap program in the initial 16 sectors of the dev-
>      ice.

	That's different from /ultrixboot.  In anycase
	if you have a ris environment setup for DS3100's,
	you can do a:

		# cd /
		# restore if - <~ris/ROOT
		restore> add ultrixboot
		restore> extract

	Have fun!

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