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- Diskless computer (DC) broadcasts MAC address with bootp: Who am I?
- Bootp or DHCP server on S looks up DB: Your IP address is X.X.X.X,
your server is S, your boot file is
vmlinuz.myname
, etc.
- DC asks to load file from TFTP server on S: Please give me
vmlinuz.myname
- S: Here you are (
/tftpdir/vmlinuz.myname
)
DC thinks a while (booting Linux).
- DC: Please let me mount
/
with NFS
- S: Here is your root FS (
/tftpboot/
IPnumber).
(In 2.2 kernels, /tftpboot/
domainname.)
- DC: Please let me mount other NFSes (
/usr, /home/
, etc)
- S: Here you are
- DC: Runs intended application
Network boot ROM contains code to do 1 and 3.
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