I've tried to get bootp working but I can't get it going, and I can't
really find any documentation on it at all, the manpages (at least in
debian) on bootp aren't very informative.

Dhcp wouldn't be a problem for me (as I've worked with it before) if I
could somehow get bootp working, that'd be nice.

Although, I suppose it might be possible to install open/net/free bsd on
to a system or simply build a bsd box cause I'm guessing bootp actually
isn't broken in bsd if you've managed to get it working (you are using a
bsd right?). =)

If I do "boot ne0:", the openfirmware sends out 4 bootp requests, when my
linux box doesn't answer those (and I in fact, do have bootp installed
and configured), the openfirmware starts sending out rarp requests, 
my system then responds
to the rarp request, and the system wants to talk to bootparamd, and that
works to an extent... bootparamd will tell the CATS what it's hostname is,
then the cats wants the bootfile... and that's where it stops working as I
don't have enough info on how to setup /etc/bootparams.

Sorry if I dragged this e-mail on a bit too much.

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 kbaker3@ic3.ithaca.edu wrote:

> I netboot my sharks all the time (no local disk)...  use tftpboot and 
> dhcpd...  they are both easy to configure...  does the cats have
> openfirmware?  on the shark I just say "boot net"...  it sends a bootp
> request out and dhcpd responds...  Bootp is a subset of dhcp which is not
> dynamic...  You have to add a static host entry...  like...
> 
> 
> OTHER STANDARD DHCP PARAMETERS
> 
>   host sharky {  
>    server-name "par.home.null";  -- server to look for kernel
>     hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:81:66:fd; -- address of machine
>     fixed-address sharky.home.null; -- (note:address MUST resolve to
> 					numbers)
>     next-server par.home.null;	-- server to look for kernel
>     filename "netbsd_netboot-SHARK.gz";  -- file to load via tftp
>     option root-path "/mnt/storage/arm32_filesystem"; -- where to find its
> 								nfs root
>   } 
> 
> 
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> gotten no further because of all the people saying "What colour?"
>         -- (Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms)
> 
> Keith Baker			kbaker3@ic3.ithaca.edu
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> 
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Cameron wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone ever successfully boot a strongARM (the cats specifically) over
> > a network? I've been fiddling with bootparamd (linux) all day trying to
> > get it to work in hopes of booting this CATS with net bsd.
> > I really can't find any good docs for any platform thus far for setting up
> > /etc/bootparams.
> > 
> > -Cameron
> > 
> > 
> > 
>