Installing Potato with tftp on UDB

[Bart-Jan Vrielink <bartjan@vrielink.net>]

Hello,

I finally found some time to try to re-install Linux on my Multia. Today I
tried to use tftp/bootp to boot the Potato tftpboot.img.
The server is running Potato/i386.

I have dhcpd installed (already use it to serve a few dhcp clients) and
did a apt-get install tftpd. I have added 'allow bootp' to the subnet and
host part of my dhcpd.conf:
subnet 10.2.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  allow bootp;
  host centauri {
    hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:e4:41:27;
    option domain-name "vrielink.net";
    fixed-address centauri.vrielink.net;
    allow bootp;
  }
}

and restarted dhcpd.
I have enabled tftpd in inetd.conf and restarted inetd. tftpboot.img is
placed in /boot but because the installation manual is a bit vague on
choosing the correct name for the image I decided to test the bootp part
and issued the boot command:
>>>boot ewa0
(boot ewa0.0.0.8.0 -flags 0)

Trying MOP boot.
.Switching network ewa0.0.0.8.0 from Thin Wire to Twisted Pair...
.......bootstrap failure
Retrying...


and so on. On the server I see the following a few times in tcpdump:
20:58:09.378421 centauri ab:0:0:1:0:0 mopdl 79:
                         3f00 0849 0102 0000 0100 0304 0000 0200
                         0279 0003 0006 0000 0000 0000 0400 023c
                         0005 0002 4000 0600 0200 0207 0006 0800
                         2be4 4127 6400 0149 9001 0101 9101 02da
                         05
There is no reply from the server and I'm certain that there is no other
bootp/dhcp server available on my network.

What goes wrong ?? and if I get past this point: how should I name the
tfpboot.img ??

-- 
Tot ziens,

Bart-Jan