All:

It turned out my tftp server was starting up but then crashing before it
sent anything.  After restarting all my networking functions on the tftp
server it ran fine and I was able to netboot the 5000/133.

thanks

Nik

Nik Ingle
Dept. Applied Physics
Stanford University 
Stanford, CA 94305-4090
(650) 725-2296

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Chris Tribo wrote:

> 
> on 2/8/00 12:51 AM, Jonathan Stone at jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU wrote:
> 
> > Nik,
> > 
> > Are you sure the PROM version you have can successfully tftpboot?
> > Some versions don't.  If that's your problem, I'm sure we can work
> > something out locally.  Gintzen isn't that far from Gates, after all.
> > 
> > Simon:  do we have a 1.4.2-ish bootable pmax CD  image anywhere handy?
> > 
> > --Jonathan
> 
>     Correct me if I'm wrong/being stupid, but wouldn't all this go away
> (tftp boot PROM problems) if we had a pmax MOP loader?
> 
>     Chris
> 
>