This section describes how to set up a terminal to boot from a PC card—either a card installed in the terminal or a card on another terminal.
You need the following information:
❏ TheIPaddress of the terminal
❏ The subnet mask for the terminal (if any)
❏ The broadcast address for the terminal
❏ TheIPaddress of the gateway computer for your network (if any)
Booting from a Local PC Card
On each terminal that boots from a localPCcard, you use the Boot Monitor’s Setup menus to configure the terminal.
Complete the following steps on each terminal:
Tip
You can enter the Boot Monitor after the terminal boots by using the appropriate key combination (see Table 3-5 on page 3-30).
1. Enter the Boot Monitor. To invoke the Boot Monitor while the terminal is booting, pressing the Escape key while address requests are being broadcast to the network (when the wordsTFTP load orNFS load appear). After you press the Escape key, the Boot Monitor prompt appears.
2. Reset the terminal’sNVRAM to its default values by typing the following commands:
3. Display the Boot Monitor Setup menus by typing the following command:
> se
4. Use the right arrow key to highlightMonitor in the menu bar. The Boot Monitor and Color Depth menus appear.
a. Use the right arrow key to move to the Color Depth menu, and use the down arrow key to select the color depth. The available resolutions and refresh rates for the chosen color depth are listed in the Resolution menu.
b. Use the left arrow key to move to the Resolution menu, and use the down arrow key to select the resolution and refresh rate.
> nv
NVRAM Utility
C [adr] - change location adr D - [start] [end] display contents L - load defaults X server
Q - return to monitor M - load MWT defaults R - reload NVRAM values S - save new values
->> l Load defaults.
->> s Save configuration values.
Are you sure? y
->> q Quit the NVRAM utility.
The available resolution and color depth settings are listed in Table 9-2. For more information about color depth, see Appendix A, Using 16-bit and 24-bit Color.
Table 9-2 Monitor Resolution and Color Depth Selection Resolution (pixels) Color Depth (bits per pixel) Automatic Detection (DDC) This selection appears if a
DDC-compatible monitor is attached to the terminal. When you specify the color depth, the resolution is automatically set to the best available.
640x480 60 Hz 8, 16, or 24 72 Hz
75 Hz 85 Hz
800x600 60 Hz
72 Hz 75 Hz 85 Hz
1024x768 60 Hz 8 or 16
70 Hz 75 Hz 85 Hz
1152x900 66 Hz 8 only
76 Hz 1280x1024 60 Hz 70 Hz 75 Hz 85 Hz
5. Use the right arrow key to highlightNetwork in the menu bar. The Network window appears (Figure 9-1).
In the Network window:
a. Use the left arrow key to set the value ofGet IP Addresses From to “NVRAM.”
b. Use the down arrow key to highlightTerminal IP Address.
Use the backspace key to erase the current address and enter the terminal’sIP address. Follow the
instructions in the help text displayed at the bottom of the screen.
c. HighlightGateway IP Address, backspace to erase the current address, and enter the gateway address to be used by the terminal (if any).
d. HighlightSubnet Mask andBroadcast IP Address and change them to the addresses used on your network.
6. Reboot the terminal by using the right arrow key to highlightDoneand pressing the Return key (Figure 9-2).
Help Keyboard Monitor Network Boot Done
Terminal IP Address:
First Boot Host IP Address:
Second Boot Host IP Address:
Third Boot Host IP Address:
Gateway IP Address:
Subnet Mask:
Broadcast IP Address Get IP Addresses From:
0.0.0.0
SNAP (802.2 LLC) Encapsulation:
0.0 0.0 0.0
Enabled Disabled
DHCP IP Addressing Order: 1
BOOTP IP Addressing Order: 2
RARP IP Addressing Order: 3
Figure 9-1 The Boot Monitor’s Network Menu
7. The terminal boots and displays the Console and the Login Chooser.
NFS Booting from a Remote PC Card
To boot anNCDterminal from another terminal’sPCcard, you must do the following:
❏ Configure the boot host (the terminal with thePC card).
This requires using the Local File Manager; see
“Managing Files in a Local File System” on page 9-3 for directions.
❏ Configure each of the remote terminals that will be booting from this boot host
❏ Manually boot each remote terminal Configuring the Boot Host Terminal On the boot host terminal:
1. Set thefile-enable-nfs-server parameter to “true.”
2. Thefile-export-directory-list parameter equates the default locations of the X server and support files required for booting a terminal to the actual physical location of the files (in/local). By default, the parameter is set as follows:
Figure 9-2 The Boot Monitor’s Done Menu
file-export-directory-list = { { /tftpboot/ /local/ }
{ /usr/lib/X11/ncd/ /local/ } }
If the defaults are not accurate for your configuration, set the parameter to the actual location in/local.
3. On thePC card, use the Local File Manager to create a /local/configsdirectory and place configuration files for the remote terminal(s) in it.
4. Create configuration files for the remote terminals and use the Local File Manager to copy them to the
/local/configs directory.
The configuration files for remote terminals need only contain an entry specifying the font path, such as:
xserver-default-font-path = { { built-ins }
{ /tftpboot/fonts } }
You can use a standard configuration file for all the terminals (namedncd_std) or individual files (named for each terminal’sIP address). For information about creating and naming remote configuration files, see Chapter 4.
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To boot over NFS from a remote terminal, you must have a non-compressed X server on the PC card.
(Compressed servers are named with a .bl extension.)
5. Copy a non-compressed X server to the/local directory on thePC card.
For example, for bootingHMXterminals, you must place an X server namedXncdhmx on thePC card. Both the remote terminal and the terminal equipped with thePC card can load and execute theXncdhmx server.
6. Create a directory namedmodsmodel (wheremodel specifies the terminal model (hmx,xpt, orxpl) on thePC card and copy each desired X server module into it. For example, on anHMX terminal:
> mkdir modshmx
> copy /tftpboot/Xncd.5.1.xxx/modshmx/setup.hmx modshmx/setup.hmx
Configuring the Remote Terminals
On each remote terminal booting from thePC card, use the Boot Monitor to configure network parameters:
Tip
You can enter the Boot Monitor after the terminal boots by using the appropriate key combination (see Table 3-5 on page 3-30).
1. Enter the Boot Monitor. To invoke the Boot Monitor while the terminal is booting, press the Escape key while address requests are being broadcast to the network (when the wordsTFTP loadorNFS loadappear). After you press the Escape key, the Boot Monitor prompt appears.
2. Display the Boot Monitor Setup menus by typing the following command:
> se
3. Use the right arrow key to highlightMonitor in the menu bar. The Boot Monitor and Color Depth menus appear.
a. Use the right arrow key to move to the Color Depth menu, and use the down arrow key to select the color depth. The available resolutions and refresh rates for the chosen color depth are listed in the Resolution menu.
b. Use the left arrow key to move to the Resolution menu, and use the down arrow key to select the resolution and refresh rate.
The available resolution and color depth settings are listed in Table 9-2 on page 9-15. For more information about color depth, see Appendix A, Using 16-bit and 24-bit Color.
4. Use the right arrow key to highlight the itemNetworkin the menu bar (Figure 9-1 on page 9-16).
5. Use the left arrow key to set the value ofGet IP Addresses From to “NVRAM.”
6. Use the down arrow key to highlightTerminal IP Address, and backspace to erase the current address
7. Use the down arrow key to highlightFirst Boot Host IP Address, and backspace to erase the current address.
Enter theIPaddress of the terminal equipped with thePC card.
8. Use the down arrow key to highlightGateway IP Address, and backspace to erase the current address.
Enter the gateway address (if any) for your network.
9. Use the down arrow key to highlightSubnet Mask and Broadcast IP Address and change them to the
addresses for your network.
10. Use the right arrow key to highlightDone. 11. Use the down arrow key to highlightExit. Booting the Remote Terminals
The remote terminals must be booted manually the first time.
See “Booting Terminals Manually” on page 3-29 for more information on manual booting.
At the Boot Monitor prompt (>), type the Boot Monitor command for manual booting viaNFS:
> bn
The terminal boots and loads its X server from thePC card.