On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Chris Tribo wrote:

> I've been spending hours working with netbooting and netbooting install
> images. First thing to check is in your inetd.conf file to make sure
> that TFTP and BOOTP are not commented out. If they are it can't send
> anything back to your Maxine. You can kill inetd and reload it, but I
> recommend a reboot. I have not had any luck with boot 3/mop or boot
> 3/tftp. Assuming you don't have a bootfile specified in your bootptab,
> try boot 3/tftp/nfsnetbsd.ecoff (on my machine anyway). You also need to
> have rarpd enabled. If all is working with arp and rarp, you should be
> able to type arp -a and it should list the hardware ethernet address and
> ip/hostname associated with your Maxine. (You need to have the hardware
> address and machine name in /etc/ethers /etc/hosts and /etc/bootptab) I
> don't have a mop image to netboot my Maxine with, but I have had no
> trouble booting by tftp on both my 5k/240 and my VAXstation 3100, both
> running NetBSD 1.4.1. If that doesn't get you anywhere, check your
> system message log for anything and post up your bootptab file.

i tried it.... i checked my inetd.conf and tftp and bootp were
enabled...they were... then even switched on rarpd after filling in
/etc/ethers. /etc/hosts and /etc/bootptab were oke. No rarp request came
by :-(

wierd... can there be names in /etc/bootptab? or do they have to be
pre-resolved?

puzzing... and no step further :-(

thanks anyway!

Reinoud