Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:41:40 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskless, swap and DHCP Message-ID: <20040324203959.W64878@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <20040324184408.GA16912@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20040324183415.X64321@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20040324184408.GA16912@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Brooks Davis wrote: BD>On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:38:48PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: BD>> BD>> I'm trying to get an Ultra-1 to run diskless. So far most if the stuff BD>> works, I have however problems to set up swapping over NFS. There is a BD>> section in the handbook about this and I followed the instructions there BD>> without much faith in that it will work. And, yep, it doesn't. I have BD>> poked around in the sources and found no places, where the additional BD>> DHCP options for the swap file and size are parsed. So, how is that BD>> supposed to work? BD> BD>I don't think we support the DHCP swap options. It looks like what you BD>want to do is use the swapfile option in rc.conf to add a swapfile on a BD>drive you are NFS mounting RW. Oh, thanks. I was in the -stable section of the handbook. With swapfile it works now. BD>> Also I wonder about the kenv variables dhcp.host-name and BD>> dhcp.domain-name-servers. There seems to be no places in the source where BD>> they will ever be set. So, again, how is that supposed to work? BD> BD>I'm not seeing any of the dhcp.* names space on my diskless machines. BD>The hostname gets set if options BOOTP is in the kernel but that's done BD>directly in code in sys/nfsclient/. I was wondering why they are in /etc/rc.d/diskless? harti
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