Re: Booting diskless DECstation over FDDI?

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From: Matt Thomas
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:44

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In article <chicken.717694203@npac.syr.edu>, chicken@npac.syr.edu (Mark R. Levinson) writes:
|>	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.

Sure can.  Just make to register the FDDI board's address with ris instead of
the Ethernet address.  It's either one or the other.  My workstations loads
over FDDI.
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Matt Thomas                     Internet:   thomas@lkg.dec.com
DECnet-ULTRIX Development       UUCP:       ...!decwrl!thomas
Digital Equipment Corporation   Disclaimer: This message reflects my own
Littleton, MA                               warped views, etc.

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