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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation
In-Reply-To: <200011041220.eA4CKhY60343@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> from John Hay
 at "Nov 4, 2000 02:20:43 pm"
To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:21:58 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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John Hay writes:
| > > the dhcp.xxx stuff is easy, the problem is that the DHCP options are not
| > > enough, so im trying to look into defining a FBSDclass ala PXEClient, and
| > > supplying stuff like usr-ip/usr-path swap-ip/swap-path or whatever.
| > 
| > You don't need those; you can get them out of /etc/fstab.  In particular, 
| > the whole idea of passing the NFS swap details in at this stage is just 
| > *totally* bogus.
| 
| How do you specify nfs swap in the fstab file? I have been trying the

You don't, it is done via the bootp or dhcp record option 128 for example
          option option-128 "192.168.2.254:/usr/work/netboot";
You then have to make the swap file in that directory of format
	swap.<IP of client>
Use dd to create the file by copying /dev/zero for the size you want.

Note during boot up the kernel will tell you what it is using for 
swap via this request.

Doug A.


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