On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: > > Hmm, my box seems not to find the tftp image. It just repeats: > > Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet > > Is your ARP server up and running? This message is typically generated due What is an "ARP server".
I followed the instructions in the SPARC install manual topic 6.5.3. My problem is: How does the sun find the server. How does it search the net for such kind of server. How can I tell the IP of the tftp server? > to some networking problems.. > Typically, the tftp images are located (on your tftp server) below /tftp /tftpboot in the suggested configuration. > Also, you need to links in this tftp directory, both pointing to the > actual image file. The symlinks should be named after the ip adress of > your client, in hex notation, and one of the should have the string > ".SUN<arch-name>" appended. > Example: If your box is a SUN4U machine (it is probably) and has the ip > 192.168.0.1 you have to create the links like this: > > cd /tftpboot > ln -s tftpboot.img C0A80001 > ln -s tftpboot.img C0A80001.SUN4U Did so: # ll /tftpboot insgesamt 6816 -rw-r----- 3 tillea admin 2315984 Nov 27 19:30 0A0F8C37 -rw-r----- 3 tillea admin 2315984 Nov 27 19:30 0A0F8C37.SUN4U -rw-r----- 3 tillea admin 2315984 Nov 27 19:30 tftpboot.img (all hardlinks to the same file tftpboot.img from the Sparc boot disks directory). Kind regards Andreas.