> From: "Michael K. Sanders" <msanders@confusion.net>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 21:42:49 -0400 (EDT)

> Well, I managed to fix my Sun 3/60, and in the process picked up a
> diskless 3/50. I'm now trying to get the 3/50 to boot NetBSD from the
> 3/60, which is running SunOS 4.1.1. Everything works up until the RPC
> / BOOTPARAM / WHOAMI query, at which point the 3/50 says there is no
> response from a bootparam server, and the debugging output from
> `rpc.bootparamd -d` on the 3/60 is 'getclntent failed'. Any ideas?

At that point, the client knows its IP address, and is asking the
server for its own name, domain, and gateway address.  Make sure
address-to-name lookup on the server can name that client address.
Also verify that /etc/bootparams has a valid entry for the client.

Gordon Ross