Comments on: NetBoot OS X from a OpenBSD Server & NetInstall from a OpenDarwin NFS Server http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26 What do you wanna crash today? Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: TheGeekbrigade http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-41910 TheGeekbrigade Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:26:17 +0000 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26#comment-41910 Thank you so much, you saved my poor little Imac with the busted CD-ROM, thank you! Thank you so much, you saved my poor little Imac with the busted CD-ROM, thank you!

]]> By: Venture37 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-3835 Venture37 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:11:53 +0000 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26#comment-3835 Cool! :) Cool!
:)

]]> By: SpSp http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-3822 SpSp Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:58:13 +0000 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26#comment-3822 Hey, thanks for this tutorial! It worked great with G4 Tower and Tiger from a Debian without any patches n stuff! Hey, thanks for this tutorial!
It worked great with G4 Tower and Tiger from a Debian without any patches n stuff!

]]> By: Case http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-941 Case Sun, 29 May 2005 18:33:38 +0000 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26#comment-941 oh .. found 'em .. netinfo 200100000 netinfobind 200100001 ie. nothing crucial, although getting netinfo & openldap to talk .. might be the next project. oh .. found ‘em ..

netinfo 200100000
netinfobind 200100001

ie. nothing crucial, although getting netinfo & openldap to talk .. might be the next project.

]]> By: Case http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-940 Case Sun, 29 May 2005 18:30:42 +0000 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26#comment-940 Actually, I had to look at the xnu source code (opensource.apple.com) to figure this detail out, but it does work, atleast with my G3 imac (right up until the 'this machine is incompatible') I ended up pointing boot-device directly at the tftp server, and using rp (not rf :-]) with nfs:.. # nvram boot-device="enet:192.168.200.254" # nvram boot-args="-v rp=nfs:192.168.200.44:/ide/share/Install:Tiger.dmg" bootparams so far does not even appear to be required, although I am seeing an rpc portmapper lookup request for service 200100001 .. not sure what that's supposed to be. I'll have to try the G4 tower and G3 ibook later today, atleast the G4/PCI is compatible. Actually, I had to look at the xnu source code (opensource.apple.com) to figure this detail out,
but it does work, atleast with my G3 imac (right up until the ‘this machine is incompatible’)

I ended up pointing boot-device directly at the tftp server, and using rp (not rf :-]) with nfs:..

# nvram boot-device=”enet:192.168.200.254″
# nvram boot-args=”-v rp=nfs:192.168.200.44:/ide/share/Install:Tiger.dmg”

bootparams so far does not even appear to be required, although I am seeing an rpc portmapper lookup request for service 200100001 .. not sure what that’s supposed to be.

I’ll have to try the G4 tower and G3 ibook later today, atleast the G4/PCI is compatible.

]]> By: Venture37 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-938 Venture37 Sat, 28 May 2005 19:25:19 +0000 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26#comment-938 I managed to succesfully install 10.3 & 10.4 beta on a dual usb iBook. I havent tried to do the install again with a the final version, I think its time to update the guide to cover 10.4 Final & OpenBSD 3.7 I managed to succesfully install 10.3 & 10.4 beta on a dual usb iBook. I havent tried to do the install again with a the final version, I think its time to update the guide to cover 10.4 Final & OpenBSD 3.7

]]> By: Case http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-926 Case Fri, 27 May 2005 23:51:35 +0000 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26#comment-926 This sounds too good to be true! I tried doing a netinstall on 3 different macs, a G3/333 imac, a G3 ibook, and a G4/PCI tower. They all get the dhcp reply, load BootX, kernel and kext over tftp, but they all fail to mount the tiger dmg over nfs. Sure, they'll mount the NFS share, and if I copy over the contents of the dmg to the nfs share it 'sort of' works, but not quite. Any ideas, is this a feature of newer OpenFirmware, perhaps ? This sounds too good to be true!
I tried doing a netinstall on 3 different macs, a G3/333 imac, a G3 ibook, and a G4/PCI tower.
They all get the dhcp reply, load BootX, kernel and kext over tftp, but they all fail to mount the tiger dmg over nfs. Sure, they’ll mount the NFS share, and if I copy over the contents of the dmg to the nfs share it ‘sort of’ works, but not quite.
Any ideas, is this a feature of newer OpenFirmware, perhaps ?

]]> By: scot http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-860 scot Tue, 03 May 2005 14:36:42 +0000 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=26#comment-860 "If youre planing on only installing from a disk image then theoretically there is no need to create a HFS partition on the OpenDarwin box & If you can get OpenBSD to accept connections from clients on non reserved ports then the OpenDarwin box can be ditched all together." mountd -n I'm all the way to "Load of /sbin/launchd, errno 2, trying /sbin/mach_init" It isn't using the boot-args to load the image, it's trying to boot from the partition it got from rpc.bootparamd. any clue? “If youre planing on only installing from a disk image then theoretically there is no need to create a HFS partition on the OpenDarwin box & If you can get OpenBSD to accept connections from clients on non reserved ports then the OpenDarwin box can be ditched all together.”

mountd -n

I’m all the way to “Load of /sbin/launchd, errno 2, trying /sbin/mach_init”

It isn’t using the boot-args to load the image, it’s trying to boot from the partition it got from rpc.bootparamd.

any clue?

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