712/60 bootp/dhcp network boot problem

["Larry Crouch" <LCrouch@digitalsynergistics.com>]

Hello,

Hope this is the right list.

My problem is that I'm having difficulty getting my 712/60 computer to boot over the network.
The boxes (I have 2) boot fine from their internal hard-drive.

Here's the setup: windows 2000 (192.168.1.2) acting as a proxy for my dial-up.
hp4 (192.168.1.4) and hp5 (192.168.1.5) are HP 712/60 workstations with 128Mb and 64 MB of memory respectively. Each 712 has a 1 GB hard drive.

First of all, arp -a sees IPs and MAC addresses, ping works fine, smbclient on the 712s sees the windows shares and the windows computer sees the 712s shares, apache, mysql, php works on all machines - in other words all computers are booting and working.

I initially loaded the boxes by loading bootp/dhcp on my windows 2000 computer.
I'd rather not use the windows computer for booting this time.

Using dselect I have downloaded and installed various packages very successfully. dselect/apt uses the windows proxy.

I loaded dhcp and bootp packages.
Here is the relavant inetd.conf file:

tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /boot
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd bootptab

Here is the bootptab file:

.default:\
:hd=/boot:bf=lifimage:\
:sm=255.255.255.0:\
:td=/boot:\
:bs=21692:
hp5:ip=192.168.1.5:ha=0800099359c6:tc=.default:
hp4:ip=192.168.1.4:ha=0800099359a2:tc=.default:


In the /boot directory I have the lifimage file which is 11,106,304 bytes (21,692 for the length parameter).



Larry