SPARC installation

SPARC installation

[Christopher.Vance]

I have a PC (without CD-ROM drive) running the 4-disk version of Plan 9.
I have the 1993 and 1995 CD-ROMs and images of them (without proper 
ownership and protections) on a Unix server.  (These can only be read by 
me.)

I've been trying to follow the instructions from the 1993 version to 
install the 1995 version from a SPARC IPC terminal (with a borrowed CD-ROM 
drive) onto a SPARCstation 2 file server.

My problem appears to be the IP configuration on the terminal.  The PC 
terminal connects to the file server, but it knows its IP address by the 
time ipconfig is called.  The SPARC terminal fails apparently since the 
CD-ROM doesn't know the terminal's IP address when the first ipconfig is 
called.  Even when I do an explicit ipconfig after I get an rc prompt, it 
fails.

When I check '#'P/ipifc on the SPARC terminal, the first line uses address 
0.0.0.0, and the address specified to the explicit ipconfig appears on the 
second line.  When the file server mentions port allocation for the 
terminal when I do a srv, it shows the source address (from the terminal) 
as 0.0.0.0.  This presumably explains why the IL reply doesn't go to the 
terminal, and why the connection times out.

Can I do something on the SPARC terminal to change the primary IP address 
for its ethernet?  ipconfig doesn't seem to do this.  I have spent some 
time reading source, but don't understand all the details yet.  
Alternatively, can I get an existing Unix bootp server to answer the 
question sent by the initial ipconfig?  (I know some usage of bootp by 
Plan 9 checks that the bootp server was also Plan 9, but that's not the 
server we use.)

-- Christopher