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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: setting up server for diskless booting
Date: 15 Jul 1997 21:10:28 GMT
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Supervisor <root@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> wrote:

> Trying to set up a server for several diskless clients I had no luck.
> Where to find good stuff for further readings on how to set up FBSD
> as the server for diskless clients? Especially how to configure the
> kernel of the diskless client, how to swap over network etc. I already
> set up a system but it fails with the error: Unable to get SWAP NFS/MOUNT
> ports. What do that mean? 

Well, i got it to work without problems after the description in the
handbook.  The client's swap and root file (systems) are left in a
description file that can be fetched via tftp from the boot server.
Note that you also need a running bootpd on the server.  (In -current,
i think everything can be done by bootpd, and tftpd is no longer
needed.)

The kernel of the diskless client itself doesn't need many magic
things, just ``options NFS'' is required, of course.  Adding something
like MFS /tmp is a little tricky (i think you need to mount /dev/null
and use -T, except for very recent versions of mount_mfs(8), where you
can specify `swap' as the device name).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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