netatalk, ubuntu, and netboot

[Ivan X <ivanxqz@yahoo.com>]

Here's the short version: is anyone currently using netatalk to netboot an
Apple II, and if so, on what platform, and what version of netatalk?

Longer version: to trod on some well-worn ground here, I'm able to get my
Apple IIe (with Workstation Card attached to AsanteTalk bridge) to log in
and access volumes shared by netatalk 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 10.04, on my MacBook
(either natively or in Parallels). Yay.

But now I want it to netboot, and I am stuck. Boo. I can get it to find the
server and the Apple //e boot blocks and get as far as the login
application. I can login as my user or guest, and I get the option of which
volume I want. I choose A2BOOT, which contains the system image that Marsha
Jackson (via Steven Hirsch) provided. And then I get: Your startup
configuration has not been set up properly. Contact the network
administrator.

I can't figure out what's going wrong; it seems like I figured out the hard
parts, and now there's a baffling endgame. One suspicion I have is that
AppleShare 3 actually let you specify the path of what gets run upon login
(e.g. /myshare/SYSTEM/BASIC.SYSTEM); I can't find any way to do the same
with netatalk. (Though if that path is invalid, the login client politely
lets you know about it, and that's not happening with the error I'm
getting.)

A couple of posts by Steven Hirsch seemed relevant, such as this:
http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.sys.apple2/msg/a0bb6b3c1a77d8e6
I tried to follow it but it turns out there are some significant differences
between netatalk 2.0.3 (which he used) and 2.0.5, and it looks like his
contributions to a2boot were added to 2.0.5. I tried to build 2.0.3 per his
instructions, but it had a compile error related to the database, so I have
to try to build an older version of that, or perhaps try Ubuntu 6.06 as he
did (though that feels like working backwards).

Thanks for any help.


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