From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 13 11:13:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d020.dhcp212-27.cybercable.fr [212.198.27.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D7737B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:13:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.com (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24415; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:16:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3B4F3A22.EF2AC90A@herbelot.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:12:50 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gilbert Cc: Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Swapping in diskless ? (was :Re: [hackers] Re: getting rid of sysinstall) References: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <3B4E1C69.A6DC0397@herbelot.com> <15182.63564.476492.390695@trooper.velocet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Gilbert wrote: > [SNIP] > > I'm still having trouble with diskless operation. If I specify the > swap option in DHCP, the pxeboot chokes on it. If I don't specify the > swap there, things boot, but I have no swap. There isn't an obvious > way to add nfs swap once a server is running. > > Is there a way to do this in loader.conf or loader.rc? I don't know : my application was "embedded" and used much less than the 128MBytes installed in the machines (thus no swap!) -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message