From: Adametz, Bluejay (bluejay@fujigreenwood.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 12:45:51 EST
My thanks to Roberto Romani, who sent me a rather detailed setup.
The piece I was missing was :hd=/tftpboot: in the bootptab entry.
- Bluejay Adametz
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." -Sam Ewig
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adametz, Bluejay [mailto:bluejay@fujigreenwood.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:02
> To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
> Subject: Downloading a DECserver700: tftp problem
>
>
> I'm attempting to set up a Tru64 V5.1A system to be able to download a
> DECserver 700.
>
> I've got the bootp portion (apparently) working, but the tftp download
> consistently fails with:
>
> Local -955- [IP] Host xxx.xxx.10.100 located [ETHERNET]
> Local -903- [IP] Loading from host xxx.xxx.10.100
> Local -962- [IP] TFTP Error message received, code: 02
> Access violation
>
> I have the boot files in /tftpboot, and configured tftp thusly in
> inetd.conf:
>
> tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tftpd
> tftpd -d -r
> /tftpboot /tftpboot
>
> >From another host on the network I can do
> tftp xxx.xxx.10.100 -get wweng2.sys
> or
> tftp xxx.xxx.10.100 -get /tftpboot/wweng2.sys
> successfully.
>
> I'm thinking the '700 is specifying some odd path (regardless
> of what I put
> in bootptab), but I get no log messages to indicate what it's
> looking for.
> tftp logs successful transfers in daemon.log, but I get
> absolutely nothing
> for the failed attempts.
>
> The bootptab entry is
> ds700test:ht=ethernet:ha=08-00-2b-be-61-ae:\
> :bf=wweng2.sys:bs=1156:\
> :sm=255.255.0.0:\
> :ip=xxx.xxx.10.253:
>
> Does anyone have this working who could give me some pointers? Thanks.
>
> - Bluejay Adametz
>
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>
>
>
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