Hi,

With the note that I don't have a SGI Indy....

Um no.

You need to configure rarpd to map between your Indy's Ethernet address
and an IP address.

My /etc/ethers looks like:

08:00:20:89:99:ba       biasca
08:00:20:77:2a:74       corippo
08:00:20:71:4c:a5       ascona


The format should be a bit clear :-)

Once that is done you need to make sure that your Indy's IP address
is in /etc/hosts since rarpd needs that as well, then start rarpd.

Once that happens you should try netbooting your indy and see if you 
get lines like:

Oct 23 15:23:59 lugano rarpd[106]: received packet on ex0
Oct 23 15:23:59 lugano rarpd[106]: 08:00:20:77:2a:74 asked; corippo replied

Without knowing how an Indy works you probably need to put some 
sort of boot loader in the /tftpboot directory, not the kernel.  On
a sparc it's installation/netboot/boot.net, which then must be
renamed to be the IP address of the system in hex, ie, C0A80007.SUN4M
for ascona, which has an IP address of 192.168.0.7.  Note, once again,
that I don't have an SGI and they may boot completely differently from 
a sparc..

Once that is done and tftp seems to work then you should try netbooting
the indy again and you should now see lines like:

Oct 23 15:23:59 lugano tftpd[9787]: 192.168.0.9: read request for C0A80009.SUN4M
: success


Once those two work then you can start playing with nfs and dhcpd.

cheers and good luck

bruce

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 04:43:56PM -0400, William Duke wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >> So, has anybody ever used a mac68k as a boot server for another
> >> machine?
> > 
> > Shouldn't be different from any other machine.
> > For the records - I used a hp300 ( also 68k-based ) to netboot various
> > other boxes ( usually sparc or hp300 )
> > 
> > have fun
> > Michael
> > 
> 
> Yes!   I'm totally new to this.   I have never setup a boot server before
> and I'm kind of itchin' to play with my old SGI Indy.
> 
> I've been doing some reading and it looks like I have to configure DHCP,
> tftp and NFS services on my Mac68k.  I've already enabled tftp and bootp by
> uncommenting the appropriate lines in etc/inetd.conf.
> 
> I have created a /tftpboot folder in / and copied an sgimips kernel to
> /tftpboot.
> 
> I have installed the sgimips base.tgz and etc.tgz binary sets in the
> /home/indy/root folder.  I also did sh MAKEDEV all in my /home/indy/root/dev
> folder.
> 
> I've tested my tftp server by connecting to it from another BSD machine and
> that is working just fine.
> 
> There's nothing left to do but configure dhcp and nfs.  Once that's done, I
> just have to cross my fingers and press the button...
> 
> I'll keep you posted.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> William
> 
> 
> ps. If anyone has any tips and/or shortcuts, I'd love to hear them.
> 
> 
> 

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