Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 11:25:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@sidwell.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS config and over 16megs of ramon EISAm Compaq Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950712111243.25327A-100000@gateway.us.sidwell.edu>
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I have two questions(and a broken space bar, please excuse any misformatting of this email) I'm running a freebsd system (two,actually) on an ethernet containing a series of sparc servers and stations. They run NIS+ to handle user accounting and home directories. I know FreeBSD has NIS support -- odes it support NIS+, and how would I go about configuring my system as a client? I read the yp/ypbind manpages and enabled ypbind in /etc/sysconfig -- I don't know what other changes to make though (eg., the group/passwd changes.) One of the systems is a Compaq 466/33 (486/33 for the un-compaq-literate) containing 40 megs of RAM. FreeBSD only sees the first 16 megs of RAM though. BOUNCE_BUFFERS are enabled in the kernel per the suggestion of the comments in LINT. Thoughts would be welcome (DOS recognizes and uses it fine. The system runs an EISA bus.) Another question,actually. I went through the FreeBSD installation on the firstsystem, and it didn't write the boot code (this has happened to me a few times wheile installing FreeBSD on IDE systems -- it just doesn't write thebootcode.) I did some playing, and I know that the root partition is fine, and bteasy is fine -- bteasy shows the 386bsd? prompt for the bootup, but then it just loops there when f1 is hit. I tried using disklabel to relable the disk as follows: cd /usr/mdec;disklabel -B -b wdboot -s bootwd wd0 and got the following messages: Warning, revolution/minute 0 super block size 0 and then back at the prompt again. If I stick a boot floppy (eg.,the installation disk) in the drive and enter wd(0,a)/kernel it will boot off of the HD fine.So I guess the boot loader didn't get installed?Advice would be appreciated. Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
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