Hello,
                I am having a problem with the Miniroot installer Rev. 1.7
when trying to download a miniroot file system across NFS to an HP345 box.
  I can boot SYS_INST on the HP345 across the network, from an HP700 (using
HPs' rbootd): have set up disc partitions on its internal Rodime disc. But 
get a hang during use of the minroot installer:

sys_inst> miniroot

Server IP address?   <NFS server addr>
Server Path? /netbsd
WARNING: bad date in battery clock

... hangs until system is reset

  The NFS server is on the same sub-net as the HP 345, but it does not see
any mount requests for "/netbsd". The netmask is correct and I have tried
specifying the HP345 as the router, other machines on the sub-net, 
or not supplying a router address, but it makes no difference. Listening
with tcpdump for packets from the HP 345 gives

arp who-has <NFS server addr>  tell  <HP 345>

So the installer is asking the right question  - but nothing further happens.
I would appreciate any help, as I am keen to evaluate  NetBSD 1.3 on our
collection of s300 boxes: HP345s, HP375, HP360 HP318s and HP319s.

David Nixon -- University of Liverpool, Computer Science