MrCoffee Problem from i386 server

MrCoffee Problem from i386 server

[Matthew Smith]

Hi

I have been trying to get Linux - any Linux - to work with my MrCoffee
Javastation.

My server setup:

Suse Linux 9.2/x86
rarpd V1.1
isc-dhcpd V3.0.1
tftpd V0.39 Release 2.2

MrCoffee is running OpenBoot 2.30 and has 65Mb of RAM.

After a few network problems, which I cleared up with my friend Mr
Tcpdump, the Javastation can get an address and load a boot file.

The problem is that EVERY file I try to send gives the "The file just
loaded does not appear to be executable\nok" error.

My research regarding this messages suggests that the files I am sending
are not in aout format.  However, I question this, as the problem occurs
with the latest version of Prol (which I don't think I really need as
I've got the old firmware), the pre-compiled kernels presented in the
HOWTO and also a Slackware kernel that is supposed to work.

Would all of these have been presented in a non-aout format, or is there
something else going on here, like some sort of file corruption in the
transmission process?

On a related matter - just where does one get elf2aout for Linux/x86?
All the Google references I found were for NetBSD.  I managed to find
one version of elf2aout.c but, when I tried to compile it, I found that
I was lacking a large number of dependencies.

Unfortunately, I don't have any other Sun hardware to play with at the
moment.

Cheers

M

-- 
Matthew Smith
South Australia
http://www.kbc.net.au

Re: MrCoffee Problem from i386 server

[Chris Newport]

Matthew Smith wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have been trying to get Linux - any Linux - to work with my MrCoffee
>Javastation.
>
>My server setup:
>
>Suse Linux 9.2/x86
>rarpd V1.1
>isc-dhcpd V3.0.1
>tftpd V0.39 Release 2.2
>
>MrCoffee is running OpenBoot 2.30 and has 65Mb of RAM.
>
>After a few network problems, which I cleared up with my friend Mr
>Tcpdump, the Javastation can get an address and load a boot file.
>
>The problem is that EVERY file I try to send gives the "The file just
>loaded does not appear to be executable\nok" error.
>
>My research regarding this messages suggests that the files I am sending
>are not in aout format.  However, I question this, as the problem occurs
>with the latest version of Prol (which I don't think I really need as
>I've got the old firmware), the pre-compiled kernels presented in the
>HOWTO and also a Slackware kernel that is supposed to work.
>
>Would all of these have been presented in a non-aout format, or is there
>something else going on here, like some sort of file corruption in the
>transmission process?
>
>On a related matter - just where does one get elf2aout for Linux/x86?
>All the Google references I found were for NetBSD.  I managed to find
>one version of elf2aout.c but, when I tried to compile it, I found that
>I was lacking a large number of dependencies.
>
>Unfortunately, I don't have any other Sun hardware to play with at the
>moment
>  
>
There is a good, but slightly dated, complete kit in Splack.
Choose a mirror from http://www.splack.org/ and download
splack/sparc/splack-8.0/javastation/*

Please read the instructions <B-).