Some options:
	a) Find a sun floppy disk drive :)
	b) Install NetBSD on a PC and boot from there (temporarily if you
	   must :)
	c) Find a non broken linux bootparamd.
	d) Locate a NetBSD/sparc boot program compiled to use bootp.
	d) tcpdump the session and try to work out what is going on.

	:/

		David/absolute

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Sean Murphy wrote:

> Ok, here's the deal.  For the past 2 days I've been trying to netboot my
> SparcStation4 diskless station off my P100 Slackware 7 Linux box.  I've
> gone through the Diskless howto religiously, scoured backissues of this
> list, and pretty much pulled my hair out trying to make it work :-)
> 
> The sparc loads the bootloader (i've tried both Net and OpenBSD
> bootloaders).  The following output is produced:
> 
> boot: client IP address: 198.166.5.45
> recvrpc: reject, astat=1, errno=1
> bootparamd: 'whoami' call failed
> 
> I've got rpc.bootparamd running on the linux box, and /etc/bootparamd has
> the following contents:
> 
> imb545.imb.nrc.ca root=tanager:/export/client/root \
>                 swap=tanager:/export/client/swap
> 
> All the filesystems in /export/client are correct, I believe.  There's a
> copy of the kernel in /export/client/root and /tftpboot, just to be sure.
> tftpd is enabled in inetd, nfsd and mountd are both running happily.  I
> can nfs mount the shares from my other systems, so everything is hopping
> along nicely.  from what I've gathered from the old posts to this group,
> the linux bootparamd is somewhat less than perfect, but anyone who can
> point me in the right direction so i can get this thing loaded with an OS
> would be my hero :-)
> 
> --Sean
>