Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote: > > I am trying to set up a boot server in order to boot and install > debian-ppc in a 43P I have here, but I am failing miserably to set up
Hi, a bit off topic here. Does that machine have PCI bus inside...? What kind of bus that 42T has? MCA? I'm looking forward to install Linux on PPC machines, I'm just wondering whether Debian is installable on 42Ts. > bootpd. I've never set one of these before. And it is saying: > > ioctl SIOCSARP: Invalid argument > > Anyone has an Idea of what is happening? I'm not sure what the problem was, but I think some comments on your entries in bootptab would be useful. > This kernel is compiled with RARP suport, I have an entry in > my /etc/hosts with the name and adress of the host Im trying to configure, Shouldn't it be in /etc/bootptab...? > davinci:tc=.default:ha=08005afc63b4:bf=bootprep.bin > > and the .default entry has > > :hn:dn="colband.com.br":td=/boot-ppc:ds=dns:to=auto: If you set td to /boot-ppc, make sure that your inetd.conf has "in.tftpd /boot-ppc" in it. My dn entry doesn't have the quotes, and since it works, I think you should remove the quotes too. You need to add ip and hd entries; ip is the ip number which the ha will be mapped, and hd is the directory which will be mounted by nfs-root (actually the whole path: /boot-ppc/x.x.x.x). And because you have changed tftpd's default directory to /boot-ppc, you'd need to change the kernel's source codes that has "/tftpboot" in it to "/boot-ppc" so that the kernel (which is supposed to be put on a floppy) will try to mount /boot-ppc/x.x.x.x as the nfs-root directory; instead of /tftpboot/x.x.x.x which is the default. BTW, you'd find bootptest be useful for testing your bootpd setup; just create a machine (just like davinci above) entry in bootptab and then run bootptest on davinci. If the setup is correct, you'd get an answer that says davinci's IP is this and its Ether address is that. Oki
