Re: Installation method
Ben Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 08:30:49AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >
> > An Ultra Enterprise 1. What should be displayed after "boot net"? I get one
> > line that says it's booting from the network and nothing else. On the
> > machine running tftp, in.tftp starts and dies very rapidly.
>
> Sounds like you have gotten rarp to work or else you would get "RARP
> Timeout" messages, maybe your tftpboot isn't working properly, or you
> don't have the tftpboot image linked in right, like so:
>
> /tftpboot/tftpboot.img
> /tftpboot/########.SUN4U -> /tftpboot/tftpboot.img
Umm... Correction: the Sun4u's ask for ######## NOT for ########.SUN4U (as were
the case with the sun4c, sun4m etc.)
>
>
> the '########.SUN4U' link to tftpboot.img is 8 numerical digits plus the
> arch which is SUN4U in your case. The 8 digits is the hex value of the IP
> address. If you don't want to try and figure that out then just do a
> 'boot hme()tftpboot.img' or change hme to whatever your network interface
> is.
It would most probably (except for the 1E variants, the UPA bus systems which i
think do have the hme) be the le interface.
Greetz
Hendrik
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