From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 05:41:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F201E16A41F for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:41:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kevinstovall@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (bay101-f37.bay101.hotmail.com [64.4.56.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94C943D45 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:41:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kevinstovall@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:41:30 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 64.4.56.200 by by101fd.bay101.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:41:30 GMT X-Originating-IP: [64.4.56.200] X-Originating-Email: [kevinstovall@hotmail.com] X-Sender: kevinstovall@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: <4327E90D.30607@locolomo.org> From: "kevin stovall" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:41:30 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2005 05:41:30.0625 (UTC) FILETIME=[1E23FF10:01C5BE6F] Subject: Re: Diskless Boot Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:41:31 -0000 Thanks for responding and sorry it took me so long to respond. I am still having the same problem that I was. / is mounted through nfs. Do you know if the dhclient does the same as you described in 6? Also, I think that they did away with mfs in version 6.
From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>
To: kevin stovall <kevinstovall@hotmail.com>
CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Diskless Boot Problem
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:10:37 +0200
>kevin stovall wrote:
>>The root file system seems to mount correctly, but I am not sure
>>how to tell. The root file system is /home/diskless_ro which is set
>>up correctly for NFS. I don't have a memory file system set up, so
>>this is likely the problem.
>
>You will use either or, not both. A memory file system will ocupy
>ram so if you don't have much it's not a good idea. Also, var and
>tmp may be created as mfs if these are not mounted or toggled in
>rc.conf. (see /etc/rc.d/var and /etc/rc.d/tmp) so you may run out of
>ram.
>
>Check that you can mount the nfs root device. There are some
>permission stuff to be aware of if you have multiple exports on the
>same device.
>
>I tried once, a while ago to set up diskless systems, and wrote my
>own guide to keep track of what I was doing, you can read it here:
>
> www.daemonsecurity.com/pxe
>
>I didn't get it working, my problem was that the dhclient of 5.4
>would unconfigure the NIC before obtaining a new lease meaning that
>any NFS mounted filesystems was lost and then it couldn't write the
>lease file. This problem could posibly be solved by using mfs for
>/var and / but I only have 112 MB ram, so I prefered to have it nfs
>mounted.
>
>Cheers, Erik
>
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