Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin From: kv56962@cs.tut.fi (V{{r{nen Kari) Subject: Re: booting a 386i without a pnpd. In-Reply-To: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk's message of 29 May 92 21: 35:18 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@funet.fi (#Kotilo NEWS system ) Nntp-Posting-Host: kaarne.cs.tut.fi Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed below are writers own. References: <3591@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1992 16:43:00 GMT Lines: 28 > The old ypmaster would still reboot after the change, can anyone tell me > what magic file this machine has that allows it to reboot (and start the > first pnpd). Can I just do the same to the other 386is so they can boot too? > At the moment the 386i is back as ypmaster, which what they originally tried > to change! Keep the old master as a YP slave server! It needs some daemons which won't get started if the 386i isn't at least a slave server. Then you need to update the /etc/bootparams-file on the new master server to include the diskless 386i clients. You don't need the pnpd unless you plan to buy new 386i's which you really don't want to do.. :o) If you don't want to keep a 386i as a slave server, you can a) make your 386i clients boot form a sparc b) hack the former master's /etc/rc.local -file. kjv -- SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH (The dolphins) Kari Vaaranen Tampere University of Technology Kraatarinraitti 7A1, kv56962@cs.tut.fi SF-33270 Tampere, FINLAND kjv@tampella.fi