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To: Andrew Herdman <andrew@why.whine.com>
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Subject: Re: Using bootp to boot a sparc 4c
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Andrew Herdman wrote:

> I'm trying to get a sparc IPC to boot using bootp but i get the following,
> the last lines keep repeating over and over till the sun strops trying to
> boot.  I'm afraid i'm not familiar with bootp.. but it seems that tftp
> never even get's spawned at the request.

Make sure you are running bootparamd out of inetd with the -s flag? Also
you might want to try the filename without the .sun4c extension in /tftpboot.

Mind you , I've only done this with sun3's so I could be way off here:)

> 
> 20:36:00.603883 foo.whine.com.38977 > why.tftp: 23 RRQ "CD96F90A.SUN4C"
> 20:36:04.426932 foo.whine.com.38977 > why.tftp: 23 RRQ "CD96F90A.SUN4C"