BOTPARAMS(5)               BSD File Formats Manual              BOTPARAMS(5)

NAME
     bootparams -- boot parameter database

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/bootparams

DESCRIPTION
     The bootparams file specifies the boot parameters that diskless clients
     may request when booting over the network.  Each client supported by this
     server must have an entry in the bootparams file containing the pathnames
     for its root and (optionally) swap areas.

     Each line in the file (other than comment lines that begin with a #)
     specifies the client name followed by the pathnames that the client may
     request by their logical names.  The components of the line are delimited
     with blank or tab, and may be continued onto multiple lines with a back-
     slash.

     For example:

           client  root=server:/export/client/root \
                   swap=server:/export/client/swap \
                   dump=server:/export/client/swap

     When the client named "client" requests the pathname for its logical
     "root" it will be given the server name ``server'' and the pathname
     ``/export/client/root'' as the response to its RPC request.

     A line containing simply "]" will cause YP lookups to be done on the YP
     map "bootparams".

FILES
     /etc/bootparams  default configuration file

SEE ALSO
     diskless(8), rpc.bootparamd(8), yp(8)

BSD                             October 2, 1994                            BSD