network boot question

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I have a Netier XL1000 diskless workstation that I would like to try to boot to Linux from my Mandrake 7,2 server. I've read through the diskless howto but there are some issues I need to resolve. The howto is based on bootp and fixed ip addresses. I'm using DHCP.

I have installed tftp and there is a tftpboot directory. In this directory is a kernel image of some sort that came from ltsp. I have set up the dhcpd.conf file to point to this directory and kernel.

I have done NOTHING with NFS.

When the Netier attempts to boot it successfully obtains an IPA but hangs on the tftp stuff. Eventually it times out and boots into Windows NT. It seems there is some sort of miscommunication.

I don't see any messages pertaining to tftp in the log files. I did uncomment the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf and I even rebooted the system. Nothing.

I am obviously missing some critical aspect of the concept. I am hoping that is not the NFS stuff. I was expecting to see some sort of activity between the two machines with some message about unable to mount root file system if the failure had to do with NFS.

I would greatly appreciate some help on this.

Thanks in advance,

Paul Nixon