I have uncommented telnet in the inetd.conf file, but it doesn't work. 
Actually the sparcstation doesn't respond to ping either.

On 29 Jan 2005, at 10:24, Chris Clymer wrote:

> I haven't done netinstall, but on a regular install, aren't telnet and 
> sshd
> both disabled by default?
>
> On Friday 28 January 2005 7:29 pm, MATTHIS ROUCH 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....
>>
>> Where do you think that something is going wrong?
>> Any help greatly appreciated- thank!
>