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From: mike@ists.yorku.ca (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Help with subnets
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Date: 21 Dec 88 08:07:21 GMT
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oliveb!tymix!feldman@sun.com (Steve Feldman) writes:
> I spent a few hours yesterday converting our class C Ethernet into a class
> B subnet, only to discover that none of the diskless clients would boot.
> They all hung after loading ndboot, while trying to load the kernel.  I
> followed the instructions in the 3.3 upgrade document.

Did you remember to rename the symlinks in /tftpboot ?  They are based on
a hexadecimal representation of the Internet number.

Did you set the netmask on the ifconfig line in /etc/rc.boot ?

Did you remake the yellow pages on your YP master server with ypinit -m ?

Mike.

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