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From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd]: NFS mount from floppy?
Message-ID: <1993Jan17.165021.22645@kumr.lns.com>
Date: 17 Jan 93 16:50:21 GMT
References: <9301163120@monty.apana.org.au>
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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tony@monty.apana.org.au (Tony Clark) writes:
>I have a 486DX pc, with 40mb only 40mb of hard disk, and am trying to get
>386bsd running.
>
>Problem is, I need the hard drive to run dos for various other work-related
>things, so I can't just install it there.
>
>I do however have a Sun 3/60 with 700mb of disk space, that runs as a file
>server for the PC, and is also used for my work.
>
>I made a 386bsd boot disk, copied the kernel, mount, swapon and ifconfig from
>another machine currently running 386bsd, and attempted a mount -t nfs, etc.
>which failed.
>
>Why can't I do NFS mounts from floppy?
The most likely reason is that the mount that comes with the distribution disk
does not support NFS.
Tim
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