boot from ethernet with imac g3

[Giulio Canevari <giuliogiuseppecarlo@interfree.it>]

Hello,

i have found out that putting the net card on another pci slot on my x86 
doesn't lead to instability ;) .

I think solution isn't that far. I try to explain everything i did and 
what happened.

So far i did the following after having installed the net card:
1) ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
2) iptables -F
3) edited the /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf file, now it looks this way, and i 
believe the problem is here somewhere. As i've got really poor 
experience with nets, please take a look at it, thank you. Commented 
where i have doubt.

In macos 8.1 i have found out an app ( and i have already lost where is 
) that reports hw address of the eth is 00 05 02 43 6E 82 and says that 
the mac has an ip of 41201.173 (?) .

The

> option domain-name "example.com";
> option domain-name-servers ns1.example.com;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> default-lease-time 600;
> max-lease-time 7200;
> server-name "debian"; # debian comes from hostname output
> subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>   range 192.168.1.200 192.168.1.253;
>   #option routers 192.168.1.1; # i have deleted this, but i don't know if it's a good thing
> }
>
>
> host mac {
>             filename "/tftpboot/yaboot";
>            server-name "debian"; # always from hostname
>            hardware ethernet 00:05:02:43:6E:82; # taken from some app in the mac
>            fixed-address   192.168.1.2; # here is what i tought to be a good ip...
> }


4) created /tftpboot/ with these files:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 giulio giulio 104062976 2006-04-20 02:44 
debian-31r2-powerpc-businesscard.iso
-r--r--r--  1 giulio giulio   3470855 2005-03-06 00:00 initrd.gz
-r--r--r--  1 giulio giulio   3966165 2005-03-06 00:00 vmlinux
-r--r--r--  1 giulio giulio    149740 2004-11-26 00:00 yaboot
-r--r--r--  1 root   root         359 2006-05-31 13:39 yaboot.conf
-r--r--r--  1 giulio giulio      2602 2006-04-20 00:00 yaboot.conf.bak
-r--r--r--  1 giulio giulio      2602 2006-04-20 00:00 yaboot-netboot.conf

5) checked if file /etc/inet.d contained the following line:
tftp            dgram   udp     wait    nobody  /usr/sbin/tcpd 
/usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot

6) restarted dhcp:
 /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart

7) booted the imac keeping pressed alt-apple-o-f

8) typed boot enet:0 ( tried also boot enet:0,yaboot )
what i obtain is:

Client 000502436e82 192.168.1.2
Server 000244a8b2ef 192.168.1.1 debian
Transferfile /tftpboot/yaboot TFTP TimeOutload-size=0 adler=32

LOAD-SIZE is to small

And that's the end.

Thank you in advance,
Bye.
--
Giulio Canevari