Hmmmm,
You seem to have everything necessary to do this.
Every time I come back this, you seem to have to jump
through the hoops again with some picky little
problem!

This might be a long shot, but I just wonder if in
your /etc/bootparams file and deamon is performing
name resolution for the client? Why not try it with
just with the ip address of Zeus as I have in my
example. I seem to recall playing around with this but
couldn't tell you for sure if it's required or not.

ie, test root=192.168.0.?:/export/home/client/root

I also found that doing an ethereal trace of the
interface serving the client was useful in getting
this working.

Something else I oberved was that the Sparc would use
both rarp and bootp to get addressing details. As I
had rarp running without problems I turned the bootpd
off. The sparc still sends a bootp packet but hey,
turn it off - it's not needed (least that's the way I
saw it).

Regards
Derek

 --- Laurent FAILLIE <l_faillie@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi
Derek, hi Volker,
> 
> thanks for your reply.
> 
> First of all, I use a 10mb only networks because my
> hub runs only at this speed.
> 
> On my solaris workstation, I done following stuffs
> 
> mkdir -p -m 755 /tftpboot
> cd /tftpboot
> ln -s boot.net C0A80003.SUN4M 
> ln -s boot.net C0A80004.SUN4C
> 
> ----- /etc/ethers ------
> 8:0:20:78:6a:89       ra
> 8:0:20:13:6:44  test
> ------------------------
> ----- /etc/hosts ------
> 192.168.0.3     ra ra.chez.moi
> 192.168.0.4     test.chez.moi test
> ------------------------
> ----- /etc/bootparams ------
> ra root=Zeus:/export/home/client/root
> test root=Zeus:/export/home/client/root
> ------------------------
> ------- /etc/inetd.conf -------
> tftp    dgram   udp6    wait    root   
> /usr/sbin/in.tftpd      in.tftpd -s /tftpboot
> -------------------------------
> 
> and I have restarted inetd (pkill -HUP inetd).
> 
> As you can see, this machine can serve 2 machines :
> ra
> is my SS5 and test is the SS2. Obviously, I netboot
> only one machine at a time.
> 
> I have also started following deamons :
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/sun-rbootd -d -i hme1
> /usr/sbin/in.rarpd -d hme 1
> /usr/sbin/rpc.bootparamd -d
> 
> A strange thing is the "whoami call falled" because
> I
> should have already fixe this problem because I have
> successfully installed my SS5 using this methode ...
> 
> I continue my search but any clue welcome ;-D
> 
> Bye
> 
> Laurent
> 
> 
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