What did you use as a server?

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
To: kannan@magazine.usask.ca <kannan@magazine.usask.ca>
Cc: port-hp300@netbsd.org <port-hp300@netbsd.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Bootp problems with HP300


>kannan@magazine.usask.ca writes:
>> I'm running into extreme furstrations trying to set up an HP9000/300
>> machine I bought.
>
>:-(
>
>> I am trying to netboot it from a linux box.
>>
>> After much twiddling and following the remote-boot hp300 howto, I did
>> everything that is needed of me, as far as the howto goes.
>>
>> The hp300 boots, and rbootd sees the boot requests, and sends over
>> SYS_UBOOT.  At this point, the hp box goes to a prompt.
>
>What model of hp300 do you have?
>
>> It waits a few
>> seconds and then prints a newline, and then does nothing.  At the prompt,
>> I can type "reset" and the machine will start over from the beginning,
>> but I cant do much more.
>>
>> According to the howto - after SYS_UBOOT, the hp box is supposed to send
>> out an rarp request for it's ip.  I have rarp configured on my host box,
>> and nothing happens.
>
>If you run tcpdump on the Linux box, can you see the requests coming from
>the hp300 going out on the wire?
>
>> Even if the hp300 is not able to get an IP address
>> through rarp, it's supossed to print an error message, but it does
>> nothing, just sits there.
>>
>> I am at the end of my wits about this problem.
>>
>> Some info about the setup:
>> the network is 1 486, 2 386, and 1 hp300, all running Linux except
>> for the hp300.  It's connected by coaxial.  The 486 is the bootp and rarp
>> and nfs server.
>> I really want to see this hp beast up and running, any help would
>> be greatly appreciated.
>
>I've done a bunch of netbooting of hp300 boxes (most recently as a few days
>ago), but never using a Linux box as the server...
>
>Later...
>
>Greg Oster
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