On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:14:04PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > > > http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/netboot.shtml > > I had tried your guide too, Ethan, but it didnt work the same way Ron > describes it here (on a TiBook). > > I had first tried with a pure bootp server, since OF should fall back to > using bootp if DHCP didn't work. No dice...
Brad Midgley told me newer machines are only willing to use bootp it appears. > I then tried with a dhcp server, for which I got the same log entries as > Ron. And it didn't want to netboot.... :shrug: maybe apple changed OF to use a non-standard, apple proprietary dhcp/bootp protocol so that you have to buy OSX Server to netboot macs. > Gave up on netbooting.... but I may try again with standards docs at > hand and a sniffer to find out what's up. that would be the thing to do. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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