Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:50:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.NET> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: Help! Booting a diskless client. Message-ID: <199804220550.WAA00739@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:39:27 CDT." <l0313030bb163209f3fb3@[208.2.87.6]>
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> 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??) Ah. Ok. Worth noting. > >Are you using bootp? Did you remember to quote the colons in the > >swap path? > > Nope, DHCP. I'm getting the right stuff through. ie. your DHCP server answers BOOTP requests. > 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 We don't need swap, no. And I don't know if 'swapon' will handle NFS swaps like that or no - why not try it and tell us? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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