Thanks for all the replies guys ..


On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:31:58PM -0500, Bob Nestor wrote:

> What I did to get this to work was to create a filesystem on 
> /usr/pub/speedy that included root, swap and usr.  I then untar'd the 
> macppc tarballs into the /usr/pub/speedy/root directory, and moved the 
> usr up one level to /usr/pub/speedy/usr.

OK I just want to load the install kernel .. So I just have root
defined.

> 
> My /etc/bootptab contains:

Thanks for this - I can get as far as each other with both bootp and
dhcp in bootp mode.. I have added what I didn't have to my bootp file.

> And my /tftpboot directory contains:
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10112 Oct  6 18:10 bootinfo.txt
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  58316 Oct  6 18:01 ofwboot.xcf

I have a plethora of files - so far I am trying to boot the ungzipped
netbsd.GENERIC_MD kernel as 'netbsd'

> I can boot my B&W G3 holding the "N" key down and 95% of the time it 
> boots up into NetBSD.  The other 5% of the time it gets confused since 
> the bootp request is getting out to my ISP and my server's response 
> gets lost.  (That's a configuration problem I created by using only a 
> single ethernet on my Firewall/Server system.)

Hrm this is a tad older than yours :( Damn this Apple gear :)

I'll keep going and tell you what happens. So far I can tftp the files
over just fine from the netbsd tftp client - so maybe it is hardware
related?

  C.
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