10. Setting up the workstation

The workstation needs a network card with a bootrom.

If you have access to an eprom programmer, you can download the etherboot image from the Rom-O-Matic website at http://www.rom-o-matic.net. It is based on the Etherboot project, and the source code is available at http://etherboot.sourceforge.net if you want to compile the image yourself.

You can purchase bootroms, network cards w/bootroms, eprom programmers, or complete diskless workstations from <shameless plug>DisklessWorkstations.com</shameless plug>.

Another alternative is to download the bootrom image from the LTSP website, along with the floppyload.bin file. Then, copy the two files to the boot sector of a floppy, then boot from the floppy. It will probe for the network card, then begin the boot process just as if the code came from an eprom on the network card. This is very useful for testing purposes.

The command for copying the files to the floppy is:

cat floppyload.bin ne.rom >/dev/fd0

10.1 Restarting the daemons

After creating and/or modifying the configuration files, several daemons need to be restarted, to take advantage of the changes. You can restart each of them individually, or you can simply reboot the system.

NFS

exportfs -ra

bootpd

killall -q -HUP bootpd

syslogd

/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart

inetd

killall -HUP inetd

dhcpd

/etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd restart

xfs

Stop the daemon by running:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs  stop

Then, start the daemon by running:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs  start

For some reason, 'xfs restart' doesn't work correctly. That is why we have to stop it first, then start it up.