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From: bparent@sdcc6.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: booting sun3 client from sun2 server
Message-ID: <3249@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 17:32:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcc6.3249
Posted: Wed Jul  8 17:32:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 14:35:40 EDT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Keywords: nd client server sun


I'm trying to boot a sun 3/50 using a sun 2 as an nd server.  I know the people
at Sun don't recommend it, but they say it is possible.  I've already tried
calling their software support number, but they can't seem to help me.
(No offense intended to the parties involved.)  Does anyone out there have
direct experience with this who also wouldn't mind talking to me about it?

Brief description:
	The Sun 2, we'll call server2, currently has a sun 2 as a client.

	The Sun 3, we'll call client3, has successfully been booted using 
	another Sun 3, we'll call it server3, as a server.

	The client's root partitions for client3 are identical on both
	server2 and server3.

	When booting client3 (single user) using server2 as the nd server,
	the last thing that prints out is:

		Singleuser boot -- fsck not done.
	
	The next thing that *should* print out is the # singleuser prompt.
	But I never see it; instead, after a minute or so I get the message:

		nd: disk server not responding, still trying

	Using etherfind(8C), it appears that server2 *only* responds to
	requests from client3 when client3 uses a broadcast packet.
	Then server2 sends lots of stuff to client3 (probably the tftpboot stuff
	and then the rc.boot file to execute), and then client3 sends 
	packet after packet to server2 with no responses from server2.

Did I say brief?  Sorry.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated.

Brian Parent	ARPA - bparent@sdcc6.UCSD.EDU
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