On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:53:52 -0500 (EST) 
 Wes Brown <wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu> wrote:

 > Boot: [netbsd][-s][-a][-d] :-
 > boot: client IP address: 129.22.56.15
 > bootparamd: 'whoami' call failed
 > le(0,0,0,0): Unknown error: code 72

 > My questions:  Is this thing actually booting?  (At least halfway?)  Just a
 > Yes to that question will make me happy.

...Well, rbootd is working, rarp is working, your rpc.bootparamd is losing.

 > 
 > Making a swap area on an NFS exported drive:  Do I just need to export and
 > empty directory?

...no, you create a large file, and export the file.  The file itself is
NFS mounted.

 > Does network traffic effect this boot situation?  Does this box need to
 > have an HP-IB drive attached to it?  (I got some error when the drives were
 > not turned on once but they have gone away now.).
 > 
 > rpc.bootparamd is giving this in debug mode:
 > whoami got question for 129.22.56.15
 > This is host snowhite.eeap.cwru.edu
 > Returning snowhite   (none)    127.0.0.1

...that seems wrong to me.  Why not try compiling the rpc.bootparamd from
NetBSD and see if it works any better?

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