I'm pretty new to this whole netbooting thing, but I
have a few questions. The diskless man page for sparc
says this:

"Your system will not netboot without a working
NVRAM."

Is this 100% true or can I fudge a mac address using
mkp (which is what I have been doing for a while to
run the thing with a disk).

The next thing is this. I'm going step by step through
the diskless setup web pages, and I've set up rarp,
tftp and nfs. When I type this on my machine (sparc1):

ok boot net

And get the error:

The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.The IDPROM checksum
is incorrect.The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.Got
error packet: Error Code 1 Message: File not found

I get this in the syslog of my server:

Oct  1 22:45:46 roadrunner rarpd[159]: received packet
on ex0
Oct  1 22:45:46 roadrunner rarpd[159]:
08:00:20:ff:ff:ff asked; sparky.andy.com replied
Oct  2 05:45:47 roadrunner tftpd[780]: 192.168.1.6:
read request for /tftpboot/C0A80106.SUN4C: File not
found

Well, this file does indeed exist:

roadrunner# pwd
/tftpboot
roadrunner# ls -l
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  35 Oct  1 22:44
C0A80106.SUN4C -> /home/sparky/root/usr/mdec/boot.net

I've tried both a symbolic link (which I found on this
list), as well as copying the boot.net file over and
naming it the proper hex name.

Any help would be appreciated.

Andy

(Please cc me because I'm not quite on the list
(again) yet.)

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