On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 12:42:14PM -0400, qball@darkphiber.org wrote:
> I have recently tried to boot/install NetBSD-1.4 / Sparc on a sparc station 2 I
> followed the instructions for network booting, and was going to install via nfs.
> 
> When I power on the sparc I give it the boot net, it then finds my linux box
> (where I am installing from) and gets the correct file via tftp, mounts the /
> partion via NFS and loads the kernel.  Then it boots, towards the end of the
> boot it tries to mount /usr /home and the swap partion, only to error out with
> this error msg.
> 
> NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send
> 
> and I can't mount the other partitions via nfs after that, thus ruining my
> plans on install  hehe. 

Sounds like your network is not properly set up. Did you properly set up
myname, mygate, ifconfig.le0, and such ?

One thing you can try is to boot single user (boot -s) and then run
'sh /etc/netstart'. Then you can see how you network if configured and
why it fails.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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