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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!deshaw.com!christos From: christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) Subject: Re: Netbooting NetBSD/SPARC from FreeBSD-box Message-ID: <Dy7HM2.5s6@deshaw.com> Sender: usenet@deshaw.com Nntp-Posting-Host: sys1.nyc.deshaw.com Organization: D. E. Shaw & Co. References: <51s4j3$2n0@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> <51ul84$68@pier2.bayarea.net> <3246E1B4.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:10:50 GMT Lines: 12 In article <3246E1B4.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > >Is it really necessary to allow arbitrary file exports to boot a sun? >I thought that you just used the bootpd to feed it a kernel then mounted >your root directory normally over NFS. Of course, I've never tried this >before, so I could be wrong. Either way, allowing mountd to export >files sounds like a hack. :-( I think that you need that in order to netboot SunOS machines, where the swapfile is mounted separately. christos