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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD - Diskless boot
Date: 11 Feb 1997 16:49:31 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) wrote:
> I am trying to boot NetBSD on a Sun IPC from a FreeBSD machine.
> Things go well till it tries to initialize the swap partition. The
> swap partition is also remotely mounted. I have tried a directory as
> well as a flat file for the swap file. Must it be a true disk partition
> or can it be faked?
It can be faked, but you need a mountd that groks the `-r' 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.
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J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j