Hi,

a friend asked me to install NetBSD V1.1 on his sun 3/50M. As he also has a PC
running Caldera (some sort of RedHat Linux with a nice desktop), we wanted to
install via network.

After managing to get the sun3 get it's IP number via RARP and downloading the
netboot program via TFTP, I expected the sun3 to send some BOOTP-frames, but
all i got was some requests for a SUNRPC to address 255.255.255.255:

23:16:49.339996 rarp reply sun3 at sun3
23:16:49.488578 rarp reply sun3 at sun3
23:16:49.626697 sun3.1023 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
23:16:51.620275 sun3.1023 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
23:16:55.619747 sun3.1023 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
23:17:03.619909 sun3.1023 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96

The PC couldn't handle that address, neither via pinging to it nor via
re-routing 255.255.255.255 to some known address (127.0.0.1, e.g.).

Here's what the sun3 told me (p90 = IP 111.111.111.111, sun3 = IP
111.111.111.42):

------------------------------------------------------------------------
>b
Using IP address 111.111.111.42 = 6F6F6F2A
Boot: le(0,0,0)
Booting from tftp server at 111.111.111.111 = 6F6F6F6F
Downloaded 13312 bytes from tftp server.

>> NetBSD netboot [$Revision: 1.2 $]
Using IP Address 111.111.111.42 = 6F6F6F2A
boot: client addr: 111.111.111.42
bootparamd: 'whoami' call failed
boot: netbsd: Input/output error
boot:
------------------------------------------------------------------------

>From peeking in several sources (netboot, mainly), i understand that that
'whoami' call is some sort of RPC (hence the above call to SUNRPC), but how do
i get this to be sent to an address the Linux understands? No Linux-bashing
please, it's a friend's box and i consider installing NetBSD/i386 the last
resort. ;-)

Please reply via private email, as i'm not on the port-sun3 list.


Thanks for your help,

			Hubert

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