On Fri, 5 May 2000, Leo Smiers wrote:

> In <URL:news:local.port-arm26> on Fri 05 May, Ben Harris wrote:
> > Usual place.  Not many changes except to make the "ea" driver admit
> > responsibility for interrupts.  This will probably be the last snapshot
> > for a while as I work out merging with NetBSD proper.
> > 
> I have already downloaded this new kernel. The problem with the ea interrupt
> seems solved, it is now first trying nfs_boot and after three timeouts it
> switches to RARP (and RPC/bootparam).  Well done. 

Cool.  Have you tried running tcpdump on another machine on the same
network to check it's actually transmitting what it thinks it is?

> Now comes the hard part for me. I have to setup a server from which my
> A310 will mount its root file system. As a server I want to use linux (I
> know wrong os 8-), but this is the one that is up 7/24). Can you give me
> any pointers how to set it up? It is no problem if these are for netbsd.

diskless(8) is traditional.  Alternatively, you may like to look at
<URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/>.  Note that you
only need an NFS server and either a DHCP server or a RARP/bootparam
server.

FWIW, my setup here is that trafalgar (my PC) exports /export/arm26/root
to finisterre (my A3000) and runs the dhcpd that comes with NetBSD.  The
relevant fragment of dhcpd.conf is:

--------8<--------
host finisterre {
  hardware ethernet 00:00:a4:00:06:04;
  fixed-address 172.17.11.27;
  next-server trafalgar;
  option root-path "/export/arm26/root";
}
-------->8--------

I'd recommend using DHCP rather than RARP/bootparams -- IMLE it's rather
less pain to get going (one fewer daemon to misconfigure, for a start).

-- 
Ben Harris