On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Jack Culpepper wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> Well, I'm really starting to love my IPC, which is now running X.  However,
> now I'm fiddling with serving a kernel to a diskless SLC, and am running into
> some strange (at least to me) problems.  I've got tftp and bootp all setup
> on 'larry', my netbsd machine, and tftp works when I manually invoke it (that
> is, using 'tftp') from both larry and 'moe', an IPC running Solaris 2.5.
> I've been using snoop on moe to get a little closer to the problem.   Here is
> some output:
> 
> 
> Why will NetBSD's tftp not serve requests for bootfiles in "octet"?  Has
> anyone successfully booted a Sun over the network from a NetBSD machine?
> 
I have done it.  I noticed the install docs have some inaccuracies.  Did 
you remember to enable the tftp line in inetd.conf ?  What does your 
/etc/bootparams look like?