On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Jeff Foster wrote:

> 
> Well I have made a little progress on booting my Sun3/50 from an sgi
> box, but I am not there yet. Hope someone might help.
> 
> I have gotten the sgi host to provide an IP address, via rarpd and the
> tftp transfer happens. After the tftp transfer, the Sun says this:
> 
> >> NetBSD netboot [$Revision: 1.2 $]
> Requesting Internet address for 8:0:20:1:97:33
> 
> 
> Seems like it is asking for the IP again. I have rpc.bootparamd running
> on the sgi machine,but it never gets a request from netboot. The funny
> thing is I have to kill ypbind to get the rarp request to work because
> the real yp server does not have the /etc/ehters entry for the Sun, that
> is  local. Would having ypbind off then create problems for netboot?
> 

	This is a vary long shot..but...where do you have tftpd pointed in 
inetd.conf?...this looks a lot like what i get in a net install...SGI to 
SGI..if i type "machine:/CDROM/" insted of "machine:/CDROM/dist"...itll 
cycal through, not find what it wants and ask for the IP adress of the 
machine im boot/installing from....like i said a long shot...and a long 
day...:)
jeff