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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!emory!ogicse!psgrain!percy!agora!implode!davidg From: davidg@implode.rain.com (David Greenman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Diskless 386bsd ?? Message-ID: <C74v8M.wr@implode.rain.com> Date: 16 May 93 18:55:34 GMT Article-I.D.: implode.C74v8M.wr Organization: Delta Systems, Portland, OR. Lines: 19 >Does anyone know how to use 386bsd in a 'diskless' configuration ? > >I remember that someone posted a patch to alt.sources that made it's >possible to boot from a floppy and then mount / & swap & /usr from >a NFS fileserver. It's ironic (to me) that you should ask this question; I've been working on this very thing the last 3 days...and I've got it to the point that it successfully does a statfs on the root directory, but then it panics right after that. I recall seeing a message from Christoph Robitschko (posted to comp.unix.bsd) around January, but I didn't see the post you mentioned in alt.sources. >I've searched everywhere for the patch but I can't find it. As I'm obviously quite interested in this myself, please do let me know if you find out anything. -DG