From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 12 22:45:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA04739 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:45:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA04722 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:45:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mordillo (lislip.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.126]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id HAA23074 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:45:46 +0100 (MET) Received: (from news@localhost) by mordillo (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA05304; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:37:23 +0100 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Path: graichen From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: local.freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: DISKLESS.HOWTO Date: 11 Mar 1996 16:37:22 GMT Organization: his FreeBSD box :-) Lines: 34 Distribution: local Message-ID: <4i1ks2$51a@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.physik.fu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gabriele Cecchetti (gabriele@studenti.ing.unipi.it) wrote: : I'm setting up a diskless workstation for clients running X with : netscape; server is a Pentium 100 with 16Mb RAM and several Gb of : Disk and clients are Pentium 100 with 8 Mb RAM or 486DX4-100. : My clients boot well but when I try to start X or with some other (more : trivial) operation the system reboot. Probably my problems come from 'swap'. i had the same problem until i created a swapfile of exact the required size using "dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfilename bs=1k count=the_size_from_cfg" and not an empty file like said in the HOWTO ... : I've tryed to create an swap file of rigth size but that make system : unstable (It reboot almost immediately due page fault). : So, in which way I've to initialise the swap file ? : Why /dev/?? (setup'ed by netboot or nb8390 ) and /dev/vn0c (setup'ed by : vnconfig) are not the same ? you don't have to use vnconfig at all - the /dev/?? is ok : Any suggestion and ideas or a full documentation (DISKLESS.HOWTO) will be : appreciated. i plan to write some docs about this but don't have the time until summer t -- thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery