Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sdrc!cryun From: cryun@sdrc.UUCP (Yun-Seng Chao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Problems with Installing IRIX from Remote tape Message-ID: <1507@sdrc.UUCP> Date: 16 Jul 90 14:09:01 GMT Distribution: na Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati Lines: 22 Hi gang! I've been trying to get a "tapeless" machine to boot from another machine which has a tape drive I can use. I followed the manual's instruction and first did a "setenv netaddr
" and "setenv tapedevice bootp()sgia:/dev/tape", then "boot -f $tapedevice(sash.IP4) --m". Unfortunately, all I get back is a "No server for sgia:/dev/tape(sash.IP4)" message. On sgia, the inetd.conf entry for bootp is "bootp -d", and tftp entry is "tftp /usr/local/boot". Of course /usr/local/boot doesn't exist, but I don't think we even got that far. We took a look at the data packets from sgia and they were SUN RPC Portmap requests, even though the address is in /etc/hosts! This has both me and the SGI hotline stumped ... Please email responses, since I don't always get a chance to read news everyday. Thanks in advance! Yun Chao -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yun-seng Chao {uunet, cinnet.com}!sdrc!cryun SDRC; Milford, Ohio