Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 00:30:53 -0700 From: Steve Passe <fbsd@clem.systemsix.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: diskless booting Message-ID: <199503140730.AAA23254@clem.systemsix.com>
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hello,
i am currently trying to get a diskless station working
with the 950210-SNAP.
followed the instructions in the diskless faq, specifics of my setup:
server is 950210-SNAP, IP: xxx.yyy.zzz.136
/tftpboot/cfg.xxx.yyy.zzz.137:
rootfs xxx.yyy.zzz.136:/usr/rootfs/eisa
swapfs xxx.yyy.zzz.136:/usr/swapfs/swap.xxx.yyy.zzz.137
[ the faq does NOT show the actual ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ swap file ?
is this a bug in the faq? if i leave it out netboot complains
about not haveing permission to mount
]
swapsize 20000
hostname eisa.my.domain
/etc/exports:
/usr /usr/rootfs/eisa /usr/swapfs -maproot=0:0 eisa.my.domain
[ are ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ these safe? i also tried using
just /usr as the mount point, no difference...
]
etc/bootptab:
default:\
:dn="my.domain":\
:td=/tftpboot:\
:to=auto:
eisa:\
:ht=ether:\
:ha=0000c0b01234:\
:sm=255.255.255.240:\
:hn:\
:ds=xxx.yyy.zzz.129:\
:ip=xxx.yyy.zzz.137:\
:gw=xxx.yyy.zzz.130:\
:vm=rfc1048:\
:tc=default:
i took a slightly different approach for the /usr/rootfs/eisa/
file system, i modified the X11R6 lndir program to create
a tree of soft links to the / tree. I then did a rm -rf of etc
and copied /etc in its place and modified things like myname,
netstart, etc. this saves quite alot of space.
now the problem, running netboot from eisa:
A> netboot
....
Loading /tftpboot/cfg.xxx.yyy.zzz.137:
rootfs xxx.yyy.zzz.136:/usr/rootfs/eisa
swapfs xxx.yyy.zzz.136:/usr/swapfs/swap.xxx.yyy.zzz.137
swapsize 20000
hostname eisa.my.domain
***RPC ERROR: (0,0,0):
Unable to mount SWAP filesystem: No such file or directory.
boot>
the swapfile i set up appears to be there:
/usr/swapfs/swap.xxx.yyy.zzz.137 exists: -rw-rw-rw-,
/usr/swapfs is drwxrwxrwx
any ideas?
Steve Passe
smp@clem.systemsix.com
/usr/swapfs/swap.xxx.yyy.zzz.137
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