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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!aanews.merit.net!usenet From: nwoodham@charis.mcs.alma.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: diskless installation on a sparc IPC Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 07:51:51 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 16 Message-ID: <32dddcbe.5766583@leda.mcs.alma.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: leda.mcs.alma.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5127 Hello, I am trying to install NetBSD on a sparc IPC with 24 megs of RAM and a completely useless (at least for the initial boot process) hard disk. It boots from my FreeBSD machine until it wants to allocate swap. It dies there with: mountd swap Error=2 Is there any documentation anywhere other than on the NetBSD ftp site that explains how I can fix this? extreme thanks, Nate Woodhams nwoodham@charis.mcs.alma.edu