Hey all,

	I recently purchased a DEC 3000/300X to spend some time on, but
I'm having problems netbooting the machine to install NetBSD 1.4.1 on its
hard drive. Here's the deal:

* I can control the DEC via the serial terminal

* It boots into the firmware fine, and the internal tests show the RAM,
hard drive, and ethernet card work

* I'm running bootp, tftp, and ftp servers off of a Windows 98 (horrid,
right? Unfortunately, I can't install Linux or any flavor of BSD on this
box b/c it's my parents and I'm home from school for winter break).

* Here's what I do to attempt to netboot the box (the bootp and tftp
servers are running on my Windows 98 box)

>>> boot esa0
INIT-S-CPU...
INIT-S-ASIC...
INIT-S-MEM...
INIT-S-NVR...
INIT-S-CXT...
INIT-S-SCC...
INIT-S-NI...
INIT-S-SCSI...
INIT-S-ISDN...
AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ...
AUDIT_BOOT_REQ
AUDIT_BOOT_RETRY

From there, it keeps retrying. I have a feeling it has to do w/ the
rfc1024 issue, but I can't seem to configure the bootp server to use that.
Has anyone had any success netbooting a DEC 3000/300X or similar using
Win32 to install NetBSD? I could possibly download ZipSlack and use that
since its installation doesn't involve partitioning or any other
potentialy dangerous operations, but has anyone had any success w/ that?
I'm a novice, if you couldn't tell, so any help is appreciated. :)
Thanks!!

Wes Kurdziolek
xunil@vt.edu at VA Tech (http://www.vt.edu)
wes@mike.emerge.wm.edu at home

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