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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux serving OS to NetBSD/sun3?
Date: 7 Mar 1995 22:58:58 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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lruppert@avalon.syr.edu (Lou Ruppert) writes:
>Has anyone had success in serving an OS to a sun3 diskless? I don't
>know whether it is a NetBSD/sun3 problem or a Linux NFS problem or a
>configuration problem on my part, but the '3 is unable to mount procfs
>and kernfs filesystems because it says the device doesn't support
>them, and it won't allow the creation of fifos because it says the
>device won't support them. Are there any suggestions?
It sounds like you don't have the NetBSD kernel compiled with the
FIFO, KERNFS and PROCFS options enabled. Those three options
have nothing to do with NFS, btw.
- Frank
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Frank van der Linden, frank@fwi.uva.nl
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