From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 3 17:24:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11657 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (daemon@smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11510 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:24:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27363; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:23:59 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd027262; Wed Jun 3 17:23:49 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12127; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:23:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806040023.RAA12127@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:23:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, bag@sinbin.demos.su, eivind@yes.no, sepotvin@videotron.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806032244.PAA01739@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jun 3, 98 03:44:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You *are* aware that it's currently impossible to netboot a FreeBSD > > box diskless off a DEC Alpha running OSF/1 at this point because the > > OSF/1 FS is incapable of representing the requisite FreeBSD minor > > number space, right? > > Actually, it is possible as long as you don't want disks on your > workstation. Sory; it's been too long since I've been forced into a Sun indoctrination camp... the correct terminology from Sun is "dataless"; ie: with local disk, usually only for swap, but getting / and /usr via NFS. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message