From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 21 22:52:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20065 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles47.castles.com [208.214.165.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20035 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:52:51 GMT (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00739; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804220550.WAA00739@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Richard Wackerbarth cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Help! Booting a diskless client. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:39:27 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:50:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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??) 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