The problem..

John F. Kohler jkohler2 at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 7 07:58:57 PDT 1999


Dustin,

I am so ignorant, I don't even understand the question.

john

Dustin Mollo wrote:
> 
> Hey all.  I've got a tftp(d) question that I'm hoping someone out there has
> dealt with.
> 
> RH 6.0, with tftp 0.10.  I'm trying to netboot a box, and the box insists on
> putting a slash at the beginning of the kernel name even when I type it in
> w/o one.  For some reason, the tftp server sees this as a bad thing
> (probably some sort of security thing that I'm just completely not seeing)
> and refuses to serve the file.
> 
> I've tested it using the command line tool that comes with the server, and
> I'm able to grab the kernel image as long as I don't prepend a slash.
> 
> Has anyone out there dealt with this, and if so, do you have a solution
> other than finding another OS to boot off of? :)
> 
> -Dustin
> 
> --
> Founder & President
> The North Bay Linux Users' Group
> http://www.nblug.org/
> dustin at nblug.org



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