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- From: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (jt -- John Thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: re: diskless 425e off 425s
- Message-ID: <199209101438.AA03123@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 14:38:11 GMT
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- > I am trying to run a diskless HP/Apollo 425e off a HP/Apollo 425s.
- > The OS on the 425s is SR 10.3.4. We also have a diskless 425t off the
- > same 425s using the token ring. Now the 425e only has ethernet. When
- > ...
- > (So the ethernet on the 425s seems to be OK.)
- > However, the principle network on the 425s is token ring.
- >
- > My question is:
- >
- > Given the token ring as the principal network and the ethernet as
- > the secondary network, is it possilbe to boot the 425e and the 425t
- > off the 425s at the same time? (There is no problem to boot the 425t
- > as it stands now.)
-
- Not as you currently have it. If you changed the 425t and the 425s to
- have the ethernet as their primary networks, then you could boot the
- 425e and 425t off the 425s system.
-
- I've known it for a long time, and heard it for a long time, but until today,
- I don't remember ever SEEING that you couldn't boot diskless along an alternate
- network. However... in "Planning Apollo Networks and Internets", page 12-1
- (in the -A01 revision anyway), they have a NOTICE:
- Apollo nodes _cannot_ boot from partners on other networks in the
- internet, so plan to locate diskless nodes and their partners on the
- same network.
-
-
- > To boot the 425e off the 425s, we tried to switch the
- > principal network to ethernet. Then the 425s did not boot.
- > (Well, it went through all the self-tests, loaded the OS and the
- > local files. However, the window did not come up.)
- Can't say much on this except "it should work". We have done it with our
- 425t nodes a fair amount w/ no real problems. You might want to try removing
- the 'hint_file' and 'null_hint_file' from `node_data, and make sure that there
- isn't anything it your bootup that would give you grief (can't think of anything
- offhand, myself).
-
-
- -- jt --
- John Thompson
- Design Services Engineer / Sys-Admin
- Honeywell, SSEC
- Plymouth, MN 55441
- thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com
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