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From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netbooting NetBSD/SPARC from FreeBSD-box
Date: 20 Sep 1996 17:45:40 GMT
Organization: George's NetBSD answer man
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Message-ID: <51ul84$68@pier2.bayarea.net>
References: <51s4j3$2n0@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>
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In article <51s4j3$2n0@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>,
Edwin Mons <edwinm@il.ft.hse.nl> wrote:

>problem lies.  Aparently, FreeBSD 2.1.0 can't export a file (only 
>directories), while NetBSD/SPARC wants the swapfile to be mountable.

That's probably the problem, yes.

>Does anybody know a sollution for this problem?

Hack your mountd to allow exporting of regular files.  Look for the
directory check, and make it allow regular files, too.  It's a one-liner.

-- 

	Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@bayarea.net>