Appendix C | Installing and Using TFTP |
2.Select HP Diagnostic Assistant and follow the instructions to create the floppy in drive A.
3.Using the Copydisk program, create a floppy boot image in the base directory of your TFTP server. Use the following syntax:
copydisk a: x:\path\diagasst.dskwhere a: is the source diskette and x:\path is the destination TFTP base directory on your hard drive.
4.Run tftpserv.exe. TFTP waits for a request for an image file from the TopTools Remote Control card.
5.Run the HP TopTools Remote Control web interface. Click the Remote Control tab. Select the Reset and Remote boot options.
6.In the TFTP IP Address field, type the IP address of your client machine. In the TFTP File Name field, type: diagasst.dsk.
7.Click "Start Power/Reset Option". The server restarts and TFTP loads the image file onto the HP TopTools Remote Control card where it is then supplied to the HP NetServer as a boot image. The HP NetServer boots Diagnostic Assistant.
Example 3: A remote DOS file transfer to update a NetWare driver
In this example, the system administrator at a remote client running Windows 95 wants to reboot a remote HP NetServer running Novell NetWare in order to load a new SCSI device driver (the old one is believed to be faulty). To do so, the administrator obtains the latest copy of the driver from HP (AIC7870.dsk) and copies it to a formatted DOS boot disk, uses copydisk to create a floppy image file, and uses TopTools Remote Control to remote boot the disk which copies the new driver to the DOS partition. Finally, the administrator uses Text Remote Console to edit the NetWare startup.ncf file to point to the new driver.
To remotely reboot and copy the new driver:
1.Insert a 1.44MB floppy disk in drive A and create a bootable diskette. This could be at a Windows 95 or 98 client, but to ensure that the diskette has enough room for all the files, use a system with
The /s parameter instructs DOS to include the system on the disk, making the disk bootable.
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