"MATTHIS ROUCH" <120580@soas.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear netbsd/sparc users, 
> 
> I am trying to netboot my sparcstation so that I can remotely login to it and from there perform some installation. I have followed the instructions to boot the sun diskless, from a mac os x server. Things go pretty well, 
> 1. rarpd worked
> 2. tftpd shows that the sun got the boot file
> 3. bootparamd on mac os x says:
> 
> whoami 192.168.11.8
> whoami name=ss5 domain= router=192.168.11.1
> getfile ss5 root
> getfile server=192.168.11.4 (192.168.11.4) path=/export/client/root
> 
> So I gathered everything was fine. Because I have no direct access to the client's console, I followed the instructions at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/files.nocons.html about "Setting up Remote Access Without Any Console", i.e creating device files, editing the rc.conf file, and set a account/password file.
> 
> BUT, when trying to telnet to the sun station, nothing happens....

 I believe that the default NetBSD installation does not have any
processes listening on the network. If you haven't modified
/etc/inetd.conf and uncommented the telnet line, you probably need to do
that.  (And don't forget to do `pkill -1 inetd`.)

 -johan