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From: fenster@taveng.enet.dec.com (Yaacov Fenster)
Subject: Re: NCP parameters for booting over the net?
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In article <2fvrah$gsv@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
>In article <1993Dec30.161702.2642@vms.huji.ac.il>, yehavi@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
>=
>=  I have a mixed cluster in which each system has its own boot disk; so far
>=I've configured the cluster by setting the SYSGEN parameters and not using
>=CLUSTER_CONFIG. I now want to modify one system to boot via the network and
>=what I am missing now are the relevant NCP commands to define it for booting.
>=Anyone knows what to put at the LOAD ASSIST, SECONDARY and TERTIARY boot
>=parameters?
>=                                        Thanks, __Yehavi:
>=P.S. The system is a VAXstation-4060
>
>Great.  He tells us the hardware version but not the software version.  Well,
>under VMS v5.4-2, the relevent paramaters are:
>
>Hardware address         = {the system's hardware ethernet address}
>Tertiary loader          = SYS$SYSTEM:TERTIARY_VMB.EXE

In AXP this would be APB.EXE.

>Load Assist Agent        = SYS$SHARE:NISCS_LAA.EXE
>Load Assist Parameter    = disk:<root.>
>
>Where "disk:<root.>" is the disk and root directory you want the system to use
>as its system root.

Don't forget to set your circuit "Service" to enabled so that the boot server
can download the stuff.


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