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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netbooting NetBSD/SPARC from FreeBSD-box
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:16:47 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: "Jason R. Thorpe" <thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net>
CC: edwinm@il.ft.hse.nl
Jason R. Thorpe wrote:
>
> 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.
Ah, and a P.S. from FreeBSD's mountd manpage:
-r The -r option allows mount RPCs requests for regular files
to be
served. Although this seems to violate the mount protocol
speci-
fication, some diskless workstations do mount requests for
their
swapfiles and expect them to be regular files. Since a
regular
file cannot be specified in /etc/exports, the entire file
system
that the swapfiles reside in will have to be exported with
the
``-alldirs'' flag.
So it looks like it's already in there, bad hack or not. :-)
--
- Jordan Hubbard
President, FreeBSD Project