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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA447 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:08:36 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!mcshub!martin From: martin@innovus.com (Martin Renters) Subject: Re: [386bsd]: REPOST - NFS mount from floppy Message-ID: <1993Feb1.163006.22645@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: foxtrot.innovus.com Organization: Innovus Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada References: <9301288682@monty.apana.org.au> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 16:30:06 GMT Lines: 31 In article <9301288682@monty.apana.org.au> tony@monty.apana.org.au (Tony Clark) writes: >Hi, > >I have already tried this one once, but didn't solve the problem, so here >goes again: > >I would like to mount an NFS volume from a system booted off floppy disk. > >Reason: Not enough HD on the PC (486DX, 16megs ram, 40Mb HD). The PC must >be able to run MS-DOS programs from the hard disk for my work. > >Available equipment: A Sun 3/60 with 700Mb of disk for a file server. > >What I have tried already: > >Creating a bootable floppy with a Kernel (NFS included at compile). >Copying 'mount' from full the distribution. I am working on making the diskless support work with 386bsd. I have managed to get to the point where I can boot off a floppy and then mount an NFS root filesystem and swap via NFS. This works relatively well (the only problem I've found so far is that 'passwd' and friends don't work because they try to flock() a file and that isn't supported by the current NFS implementation. The other pain is determining the root and swap NFS handles when you compile the kernel. I am currently doing this with a lan analyzer and will patch the /usr/sbin/config program as soon as I get the time. Martin martin@innovus.com Innovus Inc.