Hi,

I was able to net boot a G3 minitower last year with my linux machine as 
the boot server. This was back in the 1.6.2 days. I just followed the 
on-line instructions and it worked like a charm. I'll see how I did it 
before maybe sometime this week.

Regads,
John

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Mark Wagner wrote:

> So, did my email not go through, or does nobody know how to solve the problem?
>
> --
> Mark
>
> On 1/30/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It doesn't work.
>>
>>
>> Ok, I suppose I should provide a bit more detail than that.  I've
>> recently acquired a secondhand beige G3, and I'm working on turning it
>> into a fileserver/application server for my home network.  Right now,
>> I'm trying to follow the netboot directions at
>> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/, and I've reached
>> the step of setting up the BOOTP server.  I'm using an existing Linux
>> box as the server for this.
>>
>> Gentoo Linux offers two options for a bootp server: the Netkit bootp
>> server which is badly underdocumented, and the ISC dhcp server, which
>> has very little documentation on using it as a bootp server.  Neither
>> of them appears to support the "/etc/bootptab" file mentioned in the
>> netboot documentation, and the documentation doesn't mention what the
>> various parameters mean, so I've had to guess about translating them
>> into a format that the ISC server understands.  It appears I got
>> things wrong:
>>
>> Entering "boot enet:,ofwboot.xcf" into OpenFirmware gives an error of:
>>   BOOTP failed
>>   can't OPEN: enet:,ofwboot.xcf
>>
>> The bootp server on my Linux box prints
>>
>> BOOTREQUEST from 00:05:02:fe:25:7e via eth0
>> BOOTREPLY for 192.168.0.7 to macintosh (00:05:02:fe:25:7e) via eth0
>>
>> ten times.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> For future reference:
>> The mainboard battery appears to be dead.  Will this affect my ability
>> to use the computer with NetBSD, or can I simply set up NTP to keep
>> the clock correct, and forget about it?  If not, where can I get a
>> replacement battery?
>>
>> The computer has an ATTO ExpressPCI PSC SCSI card connected to two
>> hard drives.  Is this card supported under NetBSD?  If not, what's a
>> good, inexpensive replacement?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark Wagner
>>
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