x41@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Werner Guenther) (05/13/91)
Hi, I am trying to set up a 320 as a bootserver for diskless suns. I got to the point where the sun starts booting, displays the message "using ip address 129.206.100.127" but then dies with a "bootparamd not responding, still trying" message. The strange thing is that inetd on our 320 is starting a bootparamd process at this point, so I suppose I'm missing some undocumented magic. What I did so far: I ported GNU-Tar to read the sun tapes (AIX tar didn't manage to read them). I set up a directory "/sunboot" and ran the /usr/etc/install/INSTALL script, and, following the instructions in /usr/etc/install/README, I added the following line to /etc/inetd.conf: bootparamd sunrpc_udp udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.bootparamd bootparamd 100026 1 The entry in /etc/bootparams is the following: sun1 root=aix0:/sunboot/sun1/sun1 \ swap=aix0:/sunboot/sun1/swap/sun1 As we are running yellow pages, I updated the yp databases. The yp entry looks like this (listed using 'ypcat bootparams'): root=aix0:/sunboot/sun1/sun1 swap=aix0:/sunboot/sun1/swap/sun1 I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the name of the client machine is missing. Any help will be apreciated, thanks for listening, Werner. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Werner Guenther | Computing Center, University of Heidelberg x41@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de | x41@aix0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de x41@DHDURZ1.BITNET |