Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!shinobu!odin!gaffa!keving From: keving@gaffa.sgi.com (Kevin Gurney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Problems with Installing IRIX from Remote tape Message-ID: <10475@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 17 Jul 90 19:04:07 GMT References: <1507@sdrc.UUCP> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com Distribution: na Lines: 20 In article <1507@sdrc.UUCP> cryun@sdrc.UUCP (Yun-Seng Chao) writes: >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. At SGI we do the majority of our installations from remote sources also and every time that someone has called me with this error it's been traced back to the fact that netaddr was set incorrectly in the proms. If I were you I'd doublecheck the
that you think your machine is. Assuming you didn't make a typing mistake, perhaps the source of your information is wrong. Just offering my advice based on years of seeing this problem. ---- "Is it hot in here?" keving@gaffa.wpd.sgi.com