Subject: Re: boot over network
To: Claude Foley <Claude.Foley@cns.eds.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/09/1998 13:44:24
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:10:00PM -0400, Claude Foley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If the file /tftpboot/C0A80102 is created as this: ln -s
> /usr/mdec/netboot C0A80102,
> tftp give an error 'file not found' when I try: get C0A80102.
> so I used cp /usr/mdec/netboot /tftpboot/C0A80102 and it works,

That's odd. I use a symbolic link to netboot my sun3, and it works.
Is tftpd run with the right -d argument? Are you running rarpd?

> 
> I also had a problem in the file /etc/exports
> the line with "/export/terre ...=root -alldirs terre" give me an error,
> I replace it by
>                        "/export ...=root -alldirs terre"  ( I used '...'
> because I forgot what it was )

That's probably because /exports is the mountpoint, and not /export/terre.
You can only export mountpoints.

- Frank