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From: izo30@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Ian O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [NetBSD 0.9] NFS mounted /usr
Message-ID: <eapH02fO53kR01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Date: 19 Oct 93 21:03:59 GMT
Reply-To: izo30@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Ian O'Brien)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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Background:

I'm trying to run NetBSD 0.9 on a Compaq 386n with a 40Mb hard disk
so I decided to make the /usr partition NFS mounted from a Sun File Server.
I can get the machine to execute commands from the /usr partition when in
single-user mode but when I try and boot to multi-user lots of things
crash out and core dump.  Network card is an NE1000.

So my question is this: Am I trying to do something that is not supported
yet? Or can I get this to work?

Currently I think that by having a "stub" /usr to get enough of
the network going and then NFS mounting the full /usr over it at the
right moment in /etc/rc I shouldn't have a confused machine. Or is
there another way of going about this?

Thanks, in advance,

Ian
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