Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:14:04PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
> > >
> > > http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/netboot.shtml
> >
> > I had tried your guide too, Ethan, but it didnt work the same way Ron
> > describes it here (on a TiBook).
> >
> > I had first tried with a pure bootp server, since OF should fall back to
> > using bootp if DHCP didn't work. No dice...
>
> Brad Midgley told me newer machines are only willing to use bootp it
> appears.
Doesn't the current dhcpd-2.2 that comes with potato support both
(dhcp/bootp) simultaneously?
> > I then tried with a dhcp server, for which I got the same log entries as
> > Ron. And it didn't want to netboot....
>
> :shrug: maybe apple changed OF to use a non-standard, apple
> proprietary dhcp/bootp protocol so that you have to buy OSX Server to
> netboot macs.
>
> > Gave up on netbooting.... but I may try again with standards docs at
> > hand and a sniffer to find out what's up.
>
> that would be the thing to do.
Is there something wrong with tcpdump? Many open source packages
out there that can analyse/summarize tcpdump output very nicely for
all kinds of things. That would be a lot easier and probably faster
than getting your hands on a sniffa ... ~:^)
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