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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD diskless Date: 23 Aug 1995 22:37:34 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 48 Message-ID: <41gaje$h13@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <41fmmf$am0@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Thomas Graichen (graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de) had the courage to say: : hello : has anybody set up a (or some ...) FreeBSD machines diskless - with root : _and_ swap via nfs - i've got it working so far very good - but only with : local swap - if i try to use swapping over nfs the system comes up ok - but : short after it starts swapping many processes die on signals 11 and : sometimes 6 and the machine hangs - are there any tricks i don't know ? : thanks in advance - t : p.s.: it's FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE I'm doing it with a 386sx/16 with 4 megs. (This machine does nothing except run rarpd and bootparamd.) The server is a sun4c running SunOS 4.1.3. One magic thing to watch for is that you need to specify the resvport in the configuration file. Also, I'm using al old 8-bit 3c503 ethernet card that needs conservative NFS blocksize settings. The swap file looks like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody sysman 10743808 Aug 23 18:34 /proj/export/swap/swap.128.59.72.36 Here's my config file: hostname bootserv rootfs 128.59.64.60:/proj/export/root/ctri386 swapfs 128.59.64.60:/proj/export/swap kernel vmunix rootopts resvport,rsize=4096,wsize=4096 swapopts resvport,rsize=4096,wsize=4096 swapsize 15000 Once the machine has the rootfs mounted from the primary server, it mounts /usr from another Sun server. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~ "Welcome to All Things BSDish! If it's not BSDish, it's crap!" ~~~~~~~