Ok, much progress.

I got to the point where it boots the flash update and I believe I have to fix

the jumper now.
Here are some tricks.If you read the footnote of the instructions, you realize

that RARPD and DHCP are applesand apples. You must pick just one. And it isn't

up to you. It is how the Sun boots.

So, extreme measure:  Take both machines off the main network. No more dhcp,

temporarily.  Run one cable between them. No more wireless, temporarily.  edit

/etc/hostname.if (hostname.gem0 for me) on the rarpd/tftpd server to give it a

static address   I used 10.0.0.1 -- right from the start of "man hostname.if"

edit /etc/hosts as instructed, I usd 10.0.0.2.

I'm not sure how you "really" set up network booting. This can't be it.I know

more modern systems to have dhcp in the boot environment. That should help

completely.

This got me to the point of rarpd sending a reply and then the Sun waiting and

telling meto double check the tftpd server.

Now, I varied a few things flailing around, but I think the main one wasthat

the files in /tftpboot should be named in all caps.

I also killed and restarted inetd, not just -1 (sighup), but that's probably

not needed.

I also ran inetd -d and it reported starting tftpd and then shortly after

reaping it.If I ran tftpd under gdb, it exited with 1 after a short run.I was

considering building it from source and debugging, but I haven't built OpenBSD

yet.I THINK it was the CAPS in the file names, but not sure.

AHA the instructions to use a capital X. I mistyped that.

Now to open the machine and deal with the jumper...

 - Jay