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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



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