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>From jack Thu Jun 27 14:11:04 1996
Subject: Re: Booting from the network
To: kgray@netcom.com (Kerry Gray)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 14:11:04 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: port-sparc
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960627080010.10270D-100000@netcom4> from "Kerry Gray" at Jun 27, 96 08:02:01 am
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> 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?
> 

I did enable tftp in inetd.conf.  I am not using an /etc/bootparams, because
the kernel I am booting is a Plan 9 fileserver =), and I do not want the SLC
to attempt to NFS mount anything.  All I want it to do is load and boot the
kernel I have.

Jack

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