Option to boot IRIX from network
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RE: Option to boot IRIX from network
My notes on this:

I've done a diskless before, but only with an IRIX host. I think other systems may be possible but ultimately unreliable, especially Linux or macOS. My personal experience has been these are difficult to configure properly for netboots, and that NetBSD and Solaris/illumos are better hosts. DINA is NetBSD-based notably.

My main concern is going to be authentication and hiccups because of the differences in implementations. You might find that you can get an initial connection for Linux or macOS working but a reliable connection is probably going to be very difficult; Solaris happens to have a very excellent NFS3 and RPC stack which is simply not rivaled by others. On Linux in particular NFS3 is in my experience very difficult to get consistent results out of.

This is of course anecdotal. But I spent a lot of time in the last year or two trying to make more tutorials for Linux and basically gave up because I didn't have the ability to get replicable results. I was however able to get them with netBSD and illumos.

Good luck getting this working and I'll be watching this thread to see how it goes.

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Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 03-17-2022, 05:15 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by robespierre - 03-17-2022, 06:07 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 03-17-2022, 06:28 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Raion - 03-17-2022, 07:26 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 03-21-2022, 04:17 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Raion - 03-21-2022, 10:26 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 03-30-2022, 08:24 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Linux-RISC - 04-22-2022, 07:02 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by Docter60 - 04-30-2022, 10:51 PM
RE: Option to boot IRIX from network - by stormy - 04-23-2022, 10:01 AM

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