Booting diskless DECstation over FDDI?

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From: Mark R. Levinson
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:41

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	Could anyone tell me if it's possible to boot a diskless DECstation
5000 (running Ultrix 4.2a) over FDDI rather than ethernet? If so, how is it
done? I've tried using the command "boot #/mop" from the monitor where # is
the slot of the FDDI card (which seemed like an obvious solution), but the
machine just hangs and syslog on the boot server shows no record of a dumpload
request from the client's FDDI address.

	If anyone can offer ideas, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

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Mark R. Levinson
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
Syracuse University

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Subject: Booting diskless DECstation over FDDI?
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