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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: top in PicoBSD
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 Alexey Koptsevich at "Mar 22, 2001 09:36:47 pm"
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In your setup, why don't you just use etherboot to
load the kernel and mount everything over nfs (saving the trouble
and limitations of going through picobsd) ?

Apart from creating a shared readonly root partition (for which i
have a script, but it is not committed yet),
/etc/rc.diskless[12] do almost everything you need, i have been using
them for over 2 years now.

	cheers
	luigi

> > Read again carefully the above paragraph I wrote: libkvm depends on the
> > accessibility of the file that contains unstripped, ungzipped binary image
> > of the running kernel. You don't have it in the standard versions of
> > PicoBSD. Ergo: libkvm fails to work properly.
> 
> OK, thanks, I've got it. Maybe, workaround for my case (i.e. when PicoBSD
> is used only for boot and /usr then exported from host running real
> FreeBSD) would be to save unstripped, ungzipped binary image of the
> running kernel somewhere during picobsd build process and then copy it
> from this FreeBSD server to picobsdhost:/kernel via NFS from /etc/rc. The
> former should not be too hard (I believe one more line in pico make file,
> right? the more so that there is no need in implementing it into the
> standard src tree, I may do it myself locally), the latter is even more
> easy. Could you give me a hint me what line and where should I insert to
> enable the unstripped kernel save?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 
> 


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