From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 21 22:39:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18100 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:39:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA18094 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:39:52 GMT (envelope-from rkw@Dataplex.NET) Received: from [208.2.87.6] (user6.dataplex.net [208.2.87.6]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10752; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:39:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199804220403.VAA00375@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:13:46 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:39:27 -0500 To: Mike Smith From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Help! Booting a diskless client. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:03 PM -0500 4/21/98, Mike Smith wrote: >You don't need '-r', the FreeBSD diskless swapper does a mount RPC on >the directory and then looks the file up, rather than other systems >that just mount the file directly. That shouldn't stop this working >though. > >What's the booting system output for "swap is ..."? Nothing :-( As he sheeplishly slides away. What I thought was kernel loading was really NFS timeout. (Now WHY the nfsd was down??) >Are you using bootp? Did you remember to quote the colons in the >swap path? Nope, DHCP. I'm getting the right stuff through. Question: Do we even need swap? Cannot I put a line similar to this in the fstab and get the same thing? swap-server:/diskless/swapfiles/swap.208.2.87.13 none swap 0 0 Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message