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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: diskless installation on a sparc IPC
Date: 17 Jan 1997 14:43:26 GMT
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hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de (Hubert Feyrer) wrote:
> 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.
Note that FreeBSD's mountd doesn't allow exporting files by default,
you need the following option:
-r The -r option allows mount RPCs requests for regular files to be
served. Although this seems to violate the mount protocol speci-
fication, some diskless workstations do mount requests for their
swapfiles and expect them to be regular files. Since a regular
file cannot be specified in /etc/exports, the entire file system
that the swapfiles reside in will have to be exported with the
``-alldirs'' flag.
Note that this option wasn't supported in previous versions of
FreeBSD. It is in the 2.2 development branch, and was later merged
into FreeBSD 2.1.5.
--
J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j