[SunHELP] netbooting a SPARCstation 4 from slackware linux

[Kristian Gunstone]

Hi there. I've got a SPARCstation 4 here, with no cd-rom or diskette station. 
It does not have an OS on it either. I was planning on putting Solaris 8 onto 
it via the network, but this seems to be harder than I thought. The first 
thing that concerns me is that, after the SPARC is connected to the network 
switch, the switch/NIC LED's don't light up, as if there was no computer 
connected to it at all. I setup my Slackware Linux system with rarpd, arp, 
bootpd and tftpd to function with the SPARC's MACaddress, but the SPARC isn't 
recieving any ARP/RARP packets. I've never worked on a SPARC machine before, 
so I'm a little lost here. All help would be greatly appreciated. 

Regards, 
	Kristian