Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:39:27 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.NET> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: Help! Booting a diskless client. Message-ID: <l0313030bb163209f3fb3@[208.2.87.6]> In-Reply-To: <199804220403.VAA00375@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:13:46 CDT." <l03130307b162e4661993@[208.2.87.6]>
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At 11:03 PM -0500 4/21/98, Mike Smith wrote: >You don't need '-r', the FreeBSD diskless swapper does a mount RPC on >the directory and then looks the file up, rather than other systems >that just mount the file directly. That shouldn't stop this working >though. > >What's the booting system output for "swap is ..."? Nothing :-( As he sheeplishly slides away. What I thought was kernel loading was really NFS timeout. (Now WHY the nfsd was down??) >Are you using bootp? Did you remember to quote the colons in the >swap path? Nope, DHCP. I'm getting the right stuff through. Question: Do we even need swap? Cannot I put a line similar to this in the fstab and get the same thing? swap-server:/diskless/swapfiles/swap.208.2.87.13 none swap 0 0 Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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