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From: Martin Renters <martin@victor.innovus.com>
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Subject: Re: Diskless question
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 15:59:31 -0400 (EDT)
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> Apparently all documentation on netboot has disappeared.

The documentation has moved to /usr/src/share/doc/handbook/diskless.sgml
it seems.

> It took me a couple of hours to understand why my 386sx wouldn't
> launch init & friends when booting diskless... Finally I realized
> that it was too slow and couldn't keep up with the server!

The problem here is probably more with the ethernet card you're
using, rather than the CPU.

You can set the rsize/wsize paramaters in your cfg.x.x.x.x file
by putting in the lines

	swapopts rsize=1024 wsize=1024
	rootopts rsize=1024 wsize=1024

That way it doesn't affect those cards that can handle 8K requests.

Martin