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From: Nate Woodhams <nwoodham@charis.mcs.alma.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: netbooting and swap on an IPC
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:51:38 -0500
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I posted an article a little while ago about netbooting an IPC from my
FreeBSD box.  Thanks to all those that helped, I managed to stop getting
the swap not found errors.  However, I am encountering a completely
different problem now.  

The kernel boots to the point where it says:

swap on
woodhams98-2.bruske.alma.edu:/home/export/woodhams98/swapfs/woodhams98

Then it starts to print some really odd characters and output a large
number of line feeds.  It never makes it past this point either.  I
created my swap using:

dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile.name bs=1k count=20000

Is there an error in the way I created my swap file?  I don't want to
permanently net boot the sparc, I just want to boot it once like this
and install NetBSD on the disk.

Thanks,
-Nate Woodhams