From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 7 21:15:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA13158 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 21:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA13152 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 21:15:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id PAA13834; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:44:57 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701080514.PAA13834@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: kernel bootp stuff In-Reply-To: <199701031411.PAA05212@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Jan 3, 97 03:11:21 pm" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:44:56 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Luigi Rizzo stands accused of saying: > > as it should) and mountd (which does not allow mounting files, but > only directries; this is fixed in 3.0 -current) This works in 2.2 as well; it's necessary for netbooting NetBSD and SunOS machines at least. > Before wasting too much time trying to cleanup the code for general > use, is there any of the committers interested in adding it to the > distributions (post 2.2) ? It's just a couple of new files and very > short modifications to 4-5 files mainly to instruct config to deal > with the new option properly. Sounds interesting; if nobody else takes it up, and you can provide me with the stuff ready-to-go along with manpages, I'll happily drop it in. > Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[