Hi all! After some crazy hours trying (unsuccessfully) to install potato on a diskless SparcStation IPX, I guess I've found what's wrong.
First, the symptoms: I've configured another Debian box (i386) as a TFTP and RARP server with linux-a.out from the latest disks-sparc as a boot image. When I do "boot net", the image is loaded successfully, detects all the hardware (including the ethernet card) and the stops after the words: Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. tcpdump doesn't detect ANY activity coming from the Sparc after Linux is loaded. Specifying nfsroot= explicitly in the boot prompt doesn't help at all. If I put tftpboot.img as a boot image, I get TILO prompt and then everything friezes. Possible reason: kernel can't get an IP number because no protocol is compiled in! Here's an excerpt from .config (from kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-sun4cdm_3.deb) CONFIG_IP_PNP=y # CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP is not set # CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP is not set # CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP is not set Request for help: could someone provide me with a kernel image (no matter which version) which has any of those protocols built-in. I need it really urgently. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! --- Alexander.