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I have an old Sparcstation LX that I'd like to install Debian
on. It has no CD-ROM, or floppy drive. The network card does have a
boot PROM, however, I cannot get the sparc to boot over the
network.
I have downloaded the boot image, and the Debian base install
to my server (6.0 Red Hat).
I've exported the directory containing the base files through
NFS.
I have loaded the RARP kernel module, and provided
entries for the sparc in the ARP, and RARP tables.
I have an empty hosts.deny file, and my hosts.allow file
contains ALL:ALL
I have enabled bootp, and tftp in /etc/inet.conf
When I boot the sparc machine, it displays this message:
"Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet"
Obviously, the server is not seeing the sparc client's
request, but I don't know what else to check. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
Any assistance would be much appreciated!
Jim Koontz
jrkoontz@csd.net
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