On 7/19/06, John D. Baker <jdbaker@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
> Has anyone netbooted using a MacOS X 10.4.x (specifically 10.4.7) system
> as the server lately?  I have all the pieces in place and I know tftp
> and
> NFS are working, but rarpd is giving me fits.  (Won't know if my
> bootparams
> config is working until rarpd works...)
>
> I've got it set up according to all the instructions I can find and
> rarpd
> sees the requests come in, but it never answers.  According to the man
> page in 10.4.7, it further insists that the directory /tftpboot/ipaddr
> exist or it won't respond.  Well, I have that, in both dotted-quad and
> hex
> notations, since the page isn't clear.
>
> The netboot instructions related to MacOS X/Darwin seem a bit dated.
> They don't seem to refer to anything past 10.2.8 (Darwin 6.8) as the
> server.
>
> Maybe there's more NetInfo voodoo I'm missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
> John D. Baker                            NetBSD     Darwin/MacOS X
> http://mylinuxisp(dot)com/(tilde)jdbaker/     OpenBSD            FreeBSD
> BSD.  It just sits there and _works_.
> GPG fingerprint = D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4  BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645
>
>

http://www.mspo.com/soekris.html

Although I didn't have to setup rarpd, (and now I'm wondering how I
got away with that) I ran into a similar problem where dhcp wouldn't
work correctly and fixed it by using a different switch.