ramsey@sundance.llnl.gov (Susanne Ramsey) (02/09/91)
Greetings all - I am wrestling with the following problem and wonder if you can help.. I have a sun 4/330 and a new employee has brought with them a NCD xterminal. They want to be able to boot the Xterm off the 4/330. All the files necessary for this to happen are supposed to be located in /tftpboot in various subdirectories.With all the fonts and such my / partition gets too full, I am not currently in a position to repartition my disk and so I was wondering if I could just change the location of /tftpboot.. I think all I have to do is modify /etc/inetd.conf so that in.tftpd -s is the new location for tftpboot directory.. My concern is that I currently do not have any diskless clients, all are dataless, if I get diskless clients, will they still be able to boot with tftpboot in a place other than /. Also is there anything else I need to watch out for..??? Like file/directory protections. If I move everything and try a tftp get to the directory, will that prove that /tftpboot has been successfully moved.. By the way I plan on moving /tftpboot to /local/nodename/tftpboot where I have room for all the files.. In other words, what am I getting myself into if I move it... Will I be screwed in the future..?? Please be gentle with me as I`ve only been doing this for a few months... Thanks for all your great help- Susanne Ramsey .^.^. Susanne Barbera-Ramsey Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . o o . 7000 East Avenue L-630 | (415) 423-9530 .>>v<<. Livermore Ca 94550 | ramsey@sundance.llnl.gov _mm.mm_____________________________________________________________________ -- .^.^. Susanne Barbera-Ramsey Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . o o . 7000 East Avenue L-630 | (415) 423-9530 .>>v<<. Livermore Ca 94550 | ramsey@sundance.llnl.gov _mm.mm_____________________________________________________________________
thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) (02/10/91)
In <ramsey.666056384@sundance> ramsey@sundance.llnl.gov (Susanne Ramsey) asks: [Will the world break if I move the stuff in /tftpboot?] From my experience, I think you'll be fine, as long as you check your work with tftp. I'd suggest just replacing /tftpboot with a symbolic link to where the disk space is; as long as tftpd can get there, you should be fine. One caveat: starting tftpd with -s is a problem for SPARC workstations, which decided to change the rules and ask for "/tftpboot/XXXXXXXX.SUN4C"; because tftpd does a chroot(2), it can't lookup that path. The workaround is ridiculously simple - just add another symlink in the tftpd directory with tftpboot -> . and you'll be fine. The fix is very simple with respect to the time it can take to find this for the first time :-) Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com An employee and not a spokesman for Convex Computer Corp., Dallas, TX
samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCS) (02/10/91)
My fading memory tells me that you can move 'tftpboot' without any problem, but I don't remember the details. An even better solution is to buy the ROMS from NCD that let the X Terminal operate WITHOUT having to use tftpboot over the network. They aren't all that expensive -- $200 or so. Sam'l Bassett, Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA 94035 Work: (415) 604-4792; Home: (415) 969-2644 samlb@well.sf.ca.us samlb@ames.arc.nasa.gov <Disclaimer> := 'Sterling doesn't _have_ opinions -- much less NASA!'