Netbooting Sun 3

From: David Coolbear <david_at_thecoolbears.org>
Date: Sat Sep 6 20:23:26 2003

I've been trying to netboot a Sun 3/60. It was manuafactured in 88, so
hopefully it qualifies as "Classic".

Anyway, I'd like to get SonOS4.1.1 running, but I don't have any information
on how to get it to netboot. As a first step, I've tried to netboot NetBSD,
but had very little success and no help from the NetBSD mailing list. I've got
rarpd, bootparam and tftpd running on a linux server.

With NetBSD, the sun gets an ip address from rarpd, gets a bootloader from
tftp but then times out:

root on le0
nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RFC/bootparam)
nfs_boot: client_addr=192.0.0.10 (RARP from 192.0.0.1)
nfs_boot: timeout

Has anyone out there got this to work? On either OS?
Received on Sat Sep 06 2003 - 20:23:26 BST