It might be worthwhile trying to use the sun as a NFS server -
	Some versions of linux have 'difficulties' with NFS.
	Alternatively, can you run tcpdump on any other host to see the
	traffic between the Decstation & NFS server?

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Steven McDonald wrote:

> 
> Hi folks, I've dug through all the documentation I can find to no avail. 
> So if you can either answer outright, or point me to more documentation I 
> would be forever thankful:
> 
> I have a DECstation 5000/200 with no operating system on it currently, 
> and I'm trying to install NetBSD (big suprise there!). The only other 
> machine with a SCSI bus that I could get access to to try and write the 
> disk label with is a sun sparc/1 running SunOS. But I could not get the 
> disklabel program to compile properly.
> 
> My second try was to netboot the DEC off of a Linux box. I sucessfully 
> got the nfsnetbsd.ecoff kernel to start, but when it trys to mount a 
> root filesystem it just continuously gives the error "RPC: conection 
> timed out for server 0xcfa75dff" (or something really close to that)
> 
> The root directory is specified in the /etc/bootptab and the directory is 
> in the /etc/exports on the Linux box. 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
>