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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!visi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-regensburg.de!rfhs0003!not-for-mail From: hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de (Hubert Feyrer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: diskless installation on a sparc IPC Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:44:27 GMT Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5bmb0b$ppq@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> References: <32dddcbe.5766583@leda.mcs.alma.edu> Reply-To: hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: rfhs0003.fh-regensburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960901] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5180 nwoodham@charis.mcs.alma.edu wrote: > 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 Where do you get this error, on the Sparc or on the FreeBSD machine? Problem might be that your swapfile (file, not partiton!) isn't exported propperly. Or your rpc.bootparramd isn't configured right for some reason. When debugging, tcpdump can come in handy. Hubert -- Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>