Carl Brewer wrote:

 > The boot server is a Sun4c (ELC) running Solaris 2.6 beta, 

Yuk :-)

 > with the correct entry in /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts (it's rarping
 > fine), and /tftpboot has the miniroot uncompressed and linked
 > to CB06F185, and world readable permissions.

/tftpboot *should* contain the Sun-3 boot program.  You point that
at the miniroot by means of bootparams.

Sun-3s don't load kernels by tftp, they load them via NFS.

Check out "man diskless" for more info (perhaps after extracting it
from the appropriate tarball :-)

    - mark

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