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From: O. Hartmann <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: HELP: no NFS mount ports
Date: 19 Jul 1997 12:28:43 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany
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While installing and trying to use diskless boot I always
get the message "Unable to get SWAP NFS/MOUNT ports". The
diskless client reads successfully the configurationfiles via tftp
but then stops and prints out the shown message. What is going wrong?
I guess the client can't find its swap file. I configured them as shown
and explained in the FBSD handbook but I'm really unsure whether the
shown name of the swapfile is right: swap.IP_Number. Is that right? How
can I figure out which file the bootprocess expects? How to monitor
on serverside the bootprocess? 
Another questions refers to the used gateway: we have a gateway here
but the all the diskless clients are within the same subnet the server is.

If anybody has any idea how the get rid of the trouble please contact me
over email.
Thanks in advance

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Gruss O. Hartmann
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Oliver Hartmann

harto000@mail.uni-mainz.de
ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de