On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Mike Frisch wrote:

> 	I would like to hear from anybody who has successfully net booted
> NetBSD/sparc 1.1.1 from a Linux box (preferably a 1.2.x kernel just to
> keep things the same).  Despite following all of the instructions emailed
> to me by some very kind souls, I am getting "tftp"  timeout errors soon
> after I enter "b ie()netbsd -s" at the PROM monitor line.  
> 
> 	I've had this machine for a week now and haven't even been able 
> to get it running an OS yet.  Frustrating!

I had two problems. First, tftpd user som other directory-setting by 
default than sunos does. THis was solved by a few sym-links in /tftpboot. 
The second problem was that NetBSD didn't respond properly to rarp 
requests, so I had to put in a static entry in the arp cache.

Peter