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HP OpenVMS Version 8.4 Upgrade and Installation Manual

Appendix C Setting Up and Performing Network Booting

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Table of Contents

C.1 About the OpenVMS InfoServer Utility
C.2 Setting Up Your System as an InfoServer Client
C.2.1 Determining the Local Network I/O Card to Be Used
C.2.2 Adding the Network Boot Option to the EFI Boot Manager
C.2.3 Verifying the Network I/O Device Is Bootable by EFI
C.3 Setting Up the InfoServer Server
C.4 Setting Up the BOOTP Boot Server and TFTP Server (OpenVMS Integrity servers Only)
C.5 Booting OpenVMS Integrity servers from the InfoServer
C.6 Troubleshooting InfoServer Boot Problems

This appendix explains the steps required to enable your system to boot over the LAN using the OpenVMS InfoServer utility, a software application available on OpenVMS Alpha (Version 8.3 or later) and OpenVMS Integrity servers (Version 8.2-1 or later) systems. It also describes how to boot the virtual DVD/CD drive from the network.



B.8 Troubleshooting Procedures
  		 


C.1 About the OpenVMS InfoServer Utility