> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Maarten Vink wrote: > > > After successfully installing debian on my PC, I thought I'd give my old > > Sparcstation a try. Since I don't have a monitor or floppy drive for it, I > > tried to boot it over my home network. > > After getting the tftpboot.img file and installing tftp on my PC, I got the > > following error message when booting the sparcstation: > > It's kinda tricky to boot via net. Every machines looks for a specific > bootkernel with a specific name. In the TFTP boot docfile is discribed how > you can calculate the name - another way would be to start a tcp sniffer and > look what kinda requests the sparc is sending out. There you can see the > filename. If you have another Sun in the subnet try "snoop host". > Another helpful source would be the INSTALL Doc from debian.org. > > I hope I helped a bit > > > R. Jaeschke > It does actually get the boot image; I see an incrementing counter, which stops at a certain moment. After about a second, it displays the error message. I tried the same thing with a sparc32 tftp-image from RedHat, which also resulted in this error. I'm beginning to think it's some kind of hardware problem; however, it works fine using Solaris, and ftp-ing a file to and from the machine doesn't lead to any file corruption so I think the network is OK.
Maarten Vink
