Date: 11 Mar 1996 16:37:22 GMT From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DISKLESS.HOWTO Message-ID: <4i1ks2$51a@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960310152114.18238A-100000@studenti.ing.unipi.it>
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Gabriele Cecchetti (gabriele@studenti.ing.unipi.it) wrote:
: I'm setting up a diskless workstation for clients running X with
: netscape; server is a Pentium 100 with 16Mb RAM and several Gb of
: Disk and clients are Pentium 100 with 8 Mb RAM or 486DX4-100.
: My clients boot well but when I try to start X or with some other (more
: trivial) operation the system reboot. Probably my problems come from 'swap'.
i had the same problem until i created a swapfile of exact the required size
using "dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfilename bs=1k count=the_size_from_cfg" and not
an empty file like said in the HOWTO
...
: I've tryed to create an swap file of rigth size but that make system
: unstable (It reboot almost immediately due page fault).
: So, in which way I've to initialise the swap file ?
: Why /dev/?? (setup'ed by netboot or nb8390 ) and /dev/vn0c (setup'ed by
: vnconfig) are not the same ?
you don't have to use vnconfig at all - the /dev/?? is ok
: Any suggestion and ideas or a full documentation (DISKLESS.HOWTO) will be
: appreciated.
i plan to write some docs about this but don't have the time until summer
t
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