Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:16:30 -0500 From: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> To: jcoombs@gwi.net Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Boot Message-ID: <20040713191630.GA1427@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net>
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Hello, Joshua! It has been a while since I did it (had to replace the hard drive in my FreeBSD box -- a Dell Inspiron 8000), but I had a netboot working just fine with the software from a few months ago. I did it with an iBook. You do not have to find a way to ignore file locking -- you just need to make sure these lines are in both the server and client rc.conf files: rpc_bind_enable="YES" rpc_lockd_enable="YES" rpc_statd_enable="YES" As I recall, since NFS mounts occur after most of the system is already up a couple of things wouldn't work the way you might expect. For one, /var isn't mounted fast enough so a default one is created. This just means that your boot logs won't be persistent because they are getting created on a memory backed device. You can see this happening if you watch the boot sequence. The other thing that happens is that those rpc daemons don't get started during boot. Just start them manually after the netboot completes and you can log into the client. After that you should be able to run adduser and passwd without any issues at all. (The commands you want are /usr/sbin/rpcbind , /usr/sbin/rpc.statd , and /usr/sbin/rcp.lockd -- I believe you have to start statd before lockd) Good luck! Let us know if that worked for you. Sean > Welp, I've got my G4 DA netbooting FreeBSD. Even installed some > ports without issue. Just have to find a way to ignore file locking > so I can edit the passwd db and all will be good. > > Is there a cvsup repository for the src, or should I use cvs? > > Joshua Coombs
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