Installation guide

Chapter 4. Conﬁguring the Boot Parameters Using the Initialization Diskette

4.2. Conﬁguration Procedure

The procedure for conﬁguring the Freeway system boot parameters is the same for UNIX, VMS, and Windows NT

systems. Freeway obtains the boot parameters from local non-volatile memory during system boot. Therefore, when

you conﬁgure the boot parameters in the following steps, all applicable parameters must be conﬁgured. The

parameters speciﬁed in a boot parameter initialization diskette serve to supplement any already-existing parameters,

so it is only necessary to specify the parameters which you wish to change. However, it is usually best to specify

them all so that all the boot parameters will always be set correctly, since any boot parameters which are not set

explicitly by the boot parameter diskette will be in an unknown state (whatever they were set to before).

1. The boot parameter initialization diskette is a DOS-formatted bootable ﬂoppy diskette, with an

AUTOEXEC.BAT ﬁle which includes this line:

copy a:bootparm.txt c:bootparm.txt

The boot parameter initialization diskette must also contain a ﬁle of the name bootparm.txt, which contains

lines of the form shown in Figure 4-1.

To conﬁgure the boot parameter initialization diskette, insert it into any PC. The bootparm.txt ﬁle, shown in

Figure 4-1, can be viewed with any text editor. Edit this ﬁle to conﬁgure the boot parameters, as described in

Table 4-1. Be sure to select the appropriate option to save this ﬁle as text if this is not the default format of your

editor.

A missing line, or a line with a blank ﬁeld after the colon, will result in the value of that speciﬁc boot parameter

remaining unchanged. Any line with a single period (".") character after the colon will result in that boot

parameter being cleared (set to the empty string). Any other string to the right of the colon will be used as the

new value for that boot parameter. Any line which has a "#" as the ﬁrst non-whitespace character will be taken as

a comment line, and will have no effect on any boot parameters.

Figure 4-1. Example of the Freeway System Boot Parameters (Init Disk)

Boot_Device : fei

Processor_Number : 0

FTP_User_Name : freeway

FTP_Password : password

Flags : 0

Freeway_Server_Name : freeway1

Freeway_Inet_Address : 192.168.1.193

Freeway_Subnet_Mask : ffffff00

Boot_Server_Name : bootmaster

Boot_Server_Inet_Address : 192.168.1.2

System_Boot_Directory : /usr/local/freeway/boot

System_Boot_File_Name : fw486