From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA46101 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:16:25 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id NAA64587 for linux-list; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:15:17 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from odin.corp.sgi.com (odin.corp.sgi.com [192.26.51.194]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id NAA60557 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:15:15 -0800 (PST) mail_from (aumenta@albany.sgi.com) Received: from t-bar.albany.sgi.com by odin.corp.sgi.com via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/951211.SGI) for id NAA12850; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:15:13 -0800 Received: from albany.sgi.com by t-bar.albany.sgi.com via ESMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id QAA14782; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:11:06 -0500 Message-ID: <367EB96A.AB060206@albany.sgi.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:11:06 -0500 From: Al Aumenta X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.3 IP32) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com" Subject: bootp on IRIX server Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk I am attempting to install Linux on an Indy but I am running into a problem
the instructions are for using bootp on a i386 host, I am interpreting the instructions
for an SGI host .
here is what I have:

/etc/inetd.conf

bootp   dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/etc/bootp bootp -f /etc/bootptab
tftp    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/etc/tftpd  tftpd -s  /usr/src/sgi/installfs
bootparam/1 dgram   rpc/udp wait    root    /usr/etc/rpc.bootparamd bootparamd
 
/etc/bootptab:

(server info)
/usr/src/sgi/installfs
vmlinux
(client info)
cygnus                  1 08:00:69:09:2d:9b     169.238.59.4    vmlinux
 
 

I have successfully connected with the server -- the kernel boots - but the kernel cannot
mount the network file system.

I get RPC errors pointing to nfs and mountd :
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 169.238.59.23
RPC: sendmsg returned error 128
portmap server 169.238.59.23 not responding , timed out

Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 169.238.59.23
RPC: sendmsg returned error 128
portmap server 169.238.59.23 not responding , timed out
 
Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from serve, using default

rpcinf -p output is :
    100000    3   udp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
    100000    3   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
    100005    1   tcp   1024  mountd
    100005    3   tcp   1024  mountd
    100005    1   udp   1027  mountd
    100005    3   udp   1027  mountd
    100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
    100003    3   udp   2049  nfs
    100003    2   tcp   2049  nfs
    100003    3   tcp   2049  nfs
****
I know I have permissions problems but I'm not sure where. oh by the way
/etc/exports:
/usr/src/sgi/installfs -anon=root,nohide,root=cygnus
 

any information you can give will be most appreciated.

Thanks

Al
  

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Albert Aumenta
Systems Support Engineer
Silicon Graphics Inc.
Phone 518-434-5886
e-mail aumenta@albany.sgi.com