On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 11:43:15PM +0200, Eric Delaunay wrote: > sjc@delphi.com wrote: > > > > Ok I have Sparcy booted through netboot (was easy once I figured it out > > ...many thanks to Adam Haberlach for his help) > > > > There has been talk of a new web page for debian-sparc (I tried to view the > > URL but was given an error)...well...heres some notes of mine that should > > be documented... > > > > both rarp and arp must be setup with the IP and hardware adress of the > > sparc. I was told about rarp..and figured out arp too on my own (I love > > tcpdump)...then I also found it in the mailing list archives. > > Well, how do you setup arp ? simple...[I read man arp ;) ] arp -s IPADRESS HWADRESS Why and how I figured it out: I went to the sun and typed "boot net" I was running tcpdump to see what it was doing...it asked for its IP from my rarp server...then it tried to do the tftp... as soon as the i386 machine recived a packet from 10.0.0.20 it sent out an arp request "Who has 10.0.0.20?" but (remember im watching with tcpdump) the Sun Never replied! I think the reason was that I have PROM version 1.6 which is a very old PROM...its possible (remember im guessing) that newer PROMS respond to arp requests during tftp booting > I was only required to setup rarp tables on my server (i386 debian box). > Can you explain me in which case you need to also configure arp tables ? > How do you proceed ? see above....arp is no harder to do that rarp > I would want to describe it in the documentation as well. > > Thanks in advance. > > > on my system I had to start tftpd without tcpd first AND with -l to > > work...I didn't try many combonations...but this si the configuration > > which worked for me > > Did you registered your new hostname on the server ? (eg. in /etc/hosts) > tcpd will denies connections from unknown hosts if the PARANOID option is set > in /etc/hosts.deny. Yes I did BUT...I always turn OFF PARANOID because um...I hate it :) > > ahem...all the docs I read said that Linux currently has no disk partitioning > > utility (in fact it says that in a text file in the disks-sparc > > directory) yet I was presented with a working fdisk during install (it is > > running the install downstairs now) > > Which document said there is no fdisk ? A sparc specific one ? > I'm pretty sure I removed such references from my own docs (at least the > release notes provided along with sparc boot disks). hmmm well the releace notes were where I read it .... > > um what have I forgot...oh yea...the zero padding tftpboot.img worked for me > > too ;) > > Good news :-)) yup :) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com> --- <sjc@debian.org>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
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