Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:41:30 +0000 From: "kevin stovall" <kevinstovall@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless Boot Problem Message-ID: <BAY101-F37817A2EDEFB497C9343F5CF940@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <4327E90D.30607@locolomo.org>
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Thanks for responding and sorry it took me so long to respond. I am still having the same problem that I was. / is mounted through nfs. Do you know if the dhclient does the same as you described in 6? Also, I think that they did away with mfs in version 6. <BLOCKQUOTE style='PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #A0C6E5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px'><font style='FONT-SIZE:11px;FONT-FAMILY:tahoma,sans-serif'><hr color=#A0C6E5 size=1> From: <i>Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org></i><br>To: <i>kevin stovall <kevinstovall@hotmail.com></i><br>CC: <i>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org</i><br>Subject: <i>Re: Diskless Boot Problem</i><br>Date: <i>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:10:37 +0200</i><br>>kevin stovall wrote:<br>>>The root file system seems to mount correctly, but I am not sure <br>>>how to tell. The root file system is /home/diskless_ro which is set <br>>>up correctly for NFS. I don't have a memory file system set up, so <br>>>this is likely the problem.<br>><br>>You will use either or, not both. A memory file system will ocupy <br>>ram so if you don't have much it's not a good idea. Also, var and <br>>tmp may be created as mfs if these are not mounted or toggled in <br>>rc.conf. (see /etc/rc.d/var and /etc/rc.d/tmp) so you may run out of <br>>ram.<br>><br>>Check that you can mount the nfs root device. There are some <br>>permission stuff to be aware of if you have multiple exports on the <br>>same device.<br>><br>>I tried once, a while ago to set up diskless systems, and wrote my <br>>own guide to keep track of what I was doing, you can read it here:<br>><br>> www.daemonsecurity.com/pxe<br>><br>>I didn't get it working, my problem was that the dhclient of 5.4 <br>>would unconfigure the NIC before obtaining a new lease meaning that <br>>any NFS mounted filesystems was lost and then it couldn't write the <br>>lease file. This problem could posibly be solved by using mfs for <br>>/var and / but I only have 112 MB ram, so I prefered to have it nfs <br>>mounted.<br>><br>>Cheers, Erik<br>><br>>--<br>>Ph: +34.666334818 web: <br>>www.locolomo.org<br>>S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt<br>>Subject ID: <br>>9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72<br>>Fingerprint: <br>>5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9<br>>_______________________________________________<br>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list<br>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions<br>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to <br>>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"<br></font></BLOCKQUOTE>
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