I'll give that a try tonight.   When the sun goes down; this glare is
impossible.

Regards,



> 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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