Nortel Networks 14.2 manual Setting the Boot Configuration, Using the bconfig Command Format

Configuring Netboot Client Services

Setting the Boot Configuration

This section describes how to use the bconfig command to configure a netboot option at the Technician Interface or AN Monitor command-line prompt.

•For Netboot, you use bconfig to specify the network location of a configuration file or boot image (software image or kernel file) for the AN/ANH or ARN router to use at startup.

•For Directed Netboot, you use bconfig to specify the IP address of the TFTP server and the full path name of the boot image and configuration files.

Using the bconfig Command Format

To configure an interface for Netboot, use the following bconfig command format:

bconfig -d [image config]

To configure an interface for Directed Netboot, use the following bconfig command format:

bconfig [image config] [local network [<TFTP_host> <TFTP_pathname>]]

You must issue the bconfig command twice: once to specify the location of the boot image, and again to specify the location of the configuration file.

See Table 4-1 for a description of the bconfig command options.

Table 4-1.	bconfig Command Options
Option		Description
image		Specifies the router’s boot image. The boot image can be the
		complete software image file (an.exe or arn.exe) or the kernel file
		(krnl_an.exe or krnl_arn.exe)
config		Specifies the router’s configuration file
local		Indicates that the specified file (<image> or <config>) resides in the
		router’s local file system
network		Indicates that the specified file (<image> or <config>) resides on a
		remote file system
		(continued)

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