Hi, all.
Got an old Sun IPX that I'm trying to put Red Hat on. The floppy appears not
to be in working order so I'm trying a net install.
The gist of my problem is that the IPX times out waiting for RARP responses
when it tries to netboot. I think I've probably left out a step somewhere,
but at this point I don't know what it is.
I followed the instructions for a net installation in the online version of
the 6.2/SPARC install guide. I have a Red Hat 7.0 machine which has tftp and
bootp installed. In /tftpboot is a copy of the net boot image for 32-bit
SPARC machines, with two symlinks like so:
[mjinks@gaea /tftpboot]$ ls -lo
total 1222
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 10 Oct 31 00:10 c0a40320.SUN4C -> tftp32.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 10 Oct 31 00:10 c0a40320.SUN4M -> tftp32.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1245184 Oct 30 23:21 tftp32.img
...where the hex numbers correspond to the hardware address of the IPX.
When I try to netboot, tcpdump on the server machine sees the "who-has/tell"
requests coming in, but no responses go back. I tried adding a manual arp
entry on the server, like so:
[root@gaea /root]# arp -s pallas 08:0:20:1a:5a:92
...and the arp table seems to take it...
[root@gaea /root]# arp
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface
192.168.3.32 ether 08:00:20:1A:5A:92 CM eth0
192.168.3.1 ether 08:00:09:1B:EB:76 C eth0
...but apparently there's something else I need to do in order to arp the
address back to the machine?
The instructions didn't mention bootp, but I figured this can't work on tftp
alone so I set that up too. Relevant section of the bootptab:
pallas.sysvi.hq:\
:ht=ether:\
:ha=0800201a5a92:\
:sm=255.255.255.0:\
:ip=192.168.3.32:\
:hn:\
:bf=/tftpboot/c0a40320.SUN4M:
I wasn't sure that was the right configuration for this machine, but it
seemed worth a try -- no joy, no difference in behavior at all.
Both tftp and bootp respond to their own test utilities properly.
I'm stumped.
Any thoughts appreciated, thanks.
-m
--
Michael Jinks, IB
Systems Administrator, Saecos Corporation
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