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From: edwinm@il.ft.hse.nl (Edwin Mons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Netbooting NetBSD/SPARC from FreeBSD-box
Date: 19 Sep 1996 20:49:07 +0200
Organization: IGV InterLink, Hogeschool Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Hello.
I have a diskless Sun SPARCstation 1 I'd like to run NetBSD on. The
problem is: I can't get it through the boot.
It comes as far as initing the swap-file, but crashes.
The fileserver is a PC running FreeBSD 2.1.0, and I think this is where the
problem lies. Aparently, FreeBSD 2.1.0 can't export a file (only
directories), while NetBSD/SPARC wants the swapfile to be mountable.
Does anybody know a sollution for this problem?
Edwin Mons
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