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From: nwoodham@charis.mcs.alma.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: diskless installation on a sparc IPC
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 07:51:51 GMT
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Hello,

I am trying to install NetBSD on a sparc IPC with 24 megs of RAM and a
completely useless (at least for the initial boot process) hard disk.
It boots from my FreeBSD machine until it wants to allocate swap.  It
dies there with:

mountd swap  Error=2

Is there any documentation anywhere other than on the NetBSD ftp site
that explains how I can fix this?

extreme thanks,
Nate  Woodhams

nwoodham@charis.mcs.alma.edu