So, did my email not go through, or does nobody know how to solve the probl=
em?

--
Mark

On 1/30/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo@gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't work.
>
>
> Ok, I suppose I should provide a bit more detail than that.  I've
> recently acquired a secondhand beige G3, and I'm working on turning it
> into a fileserver/application server for my home network.  Right now,
> I'm trying to follow the netboot directions at
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/, and I've reached
> the step of setting up the BOOTP server.  I'm using an existing Linux
> box as the server for this.
>
> Gentoo Linux offers two options for a bootp server: the Netkit bootp
> server which is badly underdocumented, and the ISC dhcp server, which
> has very little documentation on using it as a bootp server.  Neither
> of them appears to support the "/etc/bootptab" file mentioned in the
> netboot documentation, and the documentation doesn't mention what the
> various parameters mean, so I've had to guess about translating them
> into a format that the ISC server understands.  It appears I got
> things wrong:
>
> Entering "boot enet:,ofwboot.xcf" into OpenFirmware gives an error of:
>   BOOTP failed
>   can't OPEN: enet:,ofwboot.xcf
>
> The bootp server on my Linux box prints
>
> BOOTREQUEST from 00:05:02:fe:25:7e via eth0
> BOOTREPLY for 192.168.0.7 to macintosh (00:05:02:fe:25:7e) via eth0
>
> ten times.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> For future reference:
> The mainboard battery appears to be dead.  Will this affect my ability
> to use the computer with NetBSD, or can I simply set up NTP to keep
> the clock correct, and forget about it?  If not, where can I get a
> replacement battery?
>
> The computer has an ATTO ExpressPCI PSC SCSI card connected to two
> hard drives.  Is this card supported under NetBSD?  If not, what's a
> good, inexpensive replacement?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Wagner
>