On 5/22/05, Krijn Schaap <krijnschaap@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I'm trying to install the cobalt port of NetBSD on my Cobalt Cube
> 2700WG. I removed the original harddisk and inserted a 30Gb harddisk
> that I had laying around. After booting the restore CD that I got from
> the FTP site (the image-raq1.iso.gz) I netboot my cube. After a few
> seconds the 'Netbooting' message dissapears and the NIC link starts
> turning on and off (few seconds link, some activity, then link gone)
> .. Is this normal behaviour or is there something wrong? Unfortunatley
> the Cube 2700 has no serial port, so I can't see what's going on.
>=20
> Any hints?

It may be normal as the OS boots. The link light can turn off while
it's resetting the interface. Did you let it run for a while?

Might be worth looking at the traffic with tcpdump, if you can.

Andy