Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:39:57 -0500
From: LUMARK@tc.gc.ca (Lu, Mark)
To: jelinski@rose.man.poznan.pl ('SMTP: jelinski@rose.man.poznan.pl')
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ('SMTP: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org')
Subject: ne2000 Re: Diskless operation
Message-ID: <1996Nov13.124000.1464.426287@SMTP.tc.gc.ca>
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i am also trying to set up many network boot diskless PCs with ne2000 cards. From: Bogusz Jelinski <jelinski@rose.man.poznan.pl> >to the screen my would-be Xterminal hanged. So I set the >5th IRQ and 0x280 port (the kernel did not give me a chance to type -c >during boot sequence -> another problem : how to change kernel settings). were you able to find a better solution for diskless stations where you did not want to change the ne2000 card setting? i guess, since the rootfs and kernel file is associated with a diskless station's ethernet mac address, maybe it might be worthwhile to recompile a kernel for that station's card settings? >once again - -what should be in the fstab in my situation? Did you get a definite answer to this? my guess (which seems to work) would be: ----- 142.210.94.19:/swapfs none nfs sw 0 0 142.210.94.19:/rootfs/netf18 / nfs rw 1 1 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 ----- Can you confirm this? is the proc line necessary? i've heard some people are writing new diskless.HOWTOs. Any idea where they are? Thanks, this mailist has been very helpful for diskless problem
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