Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:03:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.NET> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: Help! Booting a diskless client. Message-ID: <199804220403.VAA00375@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:13:46 CDT." <l03130307b162e4661993@[208.2.87.6]>
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> > At 4:27 PM -0500 4/21/98, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > >I've read, and reread, Mike's application notes. > >Obviously, I'm missing something here. > >Can someone point out my error? > > > >What I really want to do is get a kernel to this machine. > > > >mount shows: > > >/dev/sd1f on /diskless/swapfiles (asynchronous, NFS exported, local, > >writes: sync 14 async 1)) > > > >/etc/exports shows: > > >/diskless/swapfiles -alldirs -maproot=0 -network 208.2.87.0 -mask > >255.255.255.224 > > > >ps shows: > > > >root 19881 0.0 0.5 468 336 ?? Is 3:56PM 0:00.02 /sbin/mountd > >-l -r You don't need '-r', the FreeBSD diskless swapper does a mount RPC on the directory and then looks the file up, rather than other systems that just mount the file directly. That shouldn't stop this working though. What's the booting system output for "swap is ..."? Are you using bootp? Did you remember to quote the colons in the swap path? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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