"Debros, Frederic M.,Md" wrote:

> on a linux suse 8.0 machine, i'm trying hard, but it stops somewhere before
> ecoff....any easy howto? i must have something wrong in the path of tftp or
> bootp.

I'm not sure I understand your question.  You've got your suse box as
the TFTP server, and your decstation can't find the image when it tries
to boot?

I use dhcp instead of bootp, and have an entry like:

	host pmax {
		hardware ethernet       08:00:2b:2f:d5:58;
		fixed-address           pmax;
		server-name             "myserver";
		filename                "pmax.root/netbsd";
		option  root-path       "/tftpboot/pmax.root";
	}

Then I just boot the decstation with

	boot 3/tftp

I think the "INSTALL.txt" file in the release notes documents this (eg
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.1/pmax/INSTALL.txt).

Simon.
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