Netbooting an FAS250

Configuration requirements for netboot servers

You can configure a system to serve boot images to Network Appliance devices that support netboot. To do so, you must configure the following items:

HTTP and/or TFTP services on your system
The rest of your netbooting environment to use the system as the netboot source

For example, you might configure BOOTP, DHCP, bootparamd, and/or rarpd, depending on the specific procedure you are using.

Note
For more information about netbooting, see Appendix B of the System Administration Storage Management Guide, or the release notes that came with your appliance.

Netbooting an FAS250 from a remote image

To netboot an FAS250 from a remote image, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Place a Data ONTAP boot image on a local HTTP server. The boot image can be copied from the FAS250 boot directory, /etc/boot/netapp-mips, or downloaded from http://now.netapp.com.
2	At the appliance CFE (common firmware environment) prompt, enter one of the following commands: Using DHCP: `ifconfig e0a -auto` Using manual configuration: `ifconfig e0a -addr=`filer_addr `-mask=`netmask `-gw=`gateway `-dns=`dns_addr `-domain=`dns_domain
3	At the CFE prompt, enter the following command: `netboot` URL For example: netboot http://myserver/bootimages/netapp/netapp-mips
4	You should then see normal boot messages during the netboot process.