I followed your instructions as far as I could, although evidently not
far enough. :)

Is it utterly necessary to do this via a null modem cable/terminal?
I'm not sure I'll be able to get my hands on one. That said:

192.168.0.2 =3D dhcp3 server running on Linux box
192.168.0.3 =3D windows machine running WinAgents TFTPd, with
netbsd-INSTALL32_IP3x in /TFTPRoot/tftpboot
192.168.0.6 =3D the address I want the o2 to use

> setenv SystemPartition bootp():
> boot
Setting $netaddr to 192.168.0.6 (from server 192.168.0.3)
(and then after a few minutes' wait...)
Unable to execute bootp():/boot:  invalid argument
Unable to load bootp():/boot: invalid bootfile bootp():/boot.

...I tried the other way:

>boot -f bootp():/netbsd-INSTALL32_IP3x
Setting $netaddr to 192.168.0.6 (from server 192.168.0.3)
(and another long wait...)
Unable to execute bootp():/netbsd-INSTALL32_IP3x:  invalid argument
Unable to load bootp():/netbsd-INSTALL32_IP3x:
``bootp():/netbsd-INSTALL32_IP3x'' is not a valid file to boot.

I'd guess from the $netaddr line that the DHCP server is doing what it
needs to (which is a relief as I'd never actually configured one
before), although I don't know why it says "from server ...0.3" (dhcp
server being 0.2). I really have little idea what I'm doing though.

Any ideas?

Might it be at all simpler/even feasible to set up an SGI-bootable CD
with nothing but the install kernel, to quickly boot the machine and
then finish with an FTP install?

Tim

On 8/6/05, Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> wrote:
> Hello Tim
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> Tim Hicks wrote:
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> > I've recently been handed an o2 to play with (180mhz, 64mb ram). I
> > downloaded the 2.0.2 ISO, burned it (using Nero 6 on Windows) and
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> As far as I know, the iso images do still not contain the boot
> loader needed to boot on a O2. Check the archive of this list [1]
> for more informations.
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>    [1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/
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> I did install it with netbooting from a local tftp server and
> installing from a local ftp server, see the hints I wrote down
> for 2.0_BETA [2]. They should be adaptable for 2.0.2 also, as I
> used them with 2.0 release too.
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>    [2] http://www.wenks.ch/fabian/NetBSD-SGI-O2.txt
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> You should be able to take the files from the CD you made and use
> them on the ftp server. Probably it could be possible to install
> from the local disks instead of the ftp server. Then you need
> only the tftp server, free versions should also be available for
> Windows, ask Google [42] for "tftp server" [3].
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>    [3] http://www.google.com/search?&q=3D%22tftp+server%22
>    [42] http://www.google.com/
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> bye
> Fabian
>