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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X11 on a diskless machine Date: 04 May 1995 14:27:16 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <KSTAILEY.95May4102716@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <3o813m$8nd@rrnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: erich@rrnet.com's message of 3 May 1995 08:40:06 -0500 In article <3o813m$8nd@rrnet.com> erich@rrnet.com (Eric L. Hernes) writes: Possible solutions that I have tried are: First I tried the following to create a small mfs filesystem, which I could mount as /tmp/.X11-unix # mount_mfs -s 2880 -T fd1440 /dev/null /tmp/.X11-unix Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group to 5. and yielded the following console message: May 4 08:11:05 mount_mfs: /tmp/.X11-unix: Operation not supported by device and still never mounted the filesystem Did you try putting: /export/foohost/swap /tmp mfs rw,-s=8192 in /etc/fstab and then reboot It's worth a shot.