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#! rnews 1569 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!aanews.merit.net!usenet From: Nate Woodhams <nwoodham@charis.mcs.alma.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: netbooting and swap on an IPC Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:51:38 -0500 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32E4131A.167EB0E7@charis.mcs.alma.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: leda.mcs.alma.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5161 I posted an article a little while ago about netbooting an IPC from my FreeBSD box. Thanks to all those that helped, I managed to stop getting the swap not found errors. However, I am encountering a completely different problem now. The kernel boots to the point where it says: swap on woodhams98-2.bruske.alma.edu:/home/export/woodhams98/swapfs/woodhams98 Then it starts to print some really odd characters and output a large number of line feeds. It never makes it past this point either. I created my swap using: dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile.name bs=1k count=20000 Is there an error in the way I created my swap file? I don't want to permanently net boot the sparc, I just want to boot it once like this and install NetBSD on the disk. Thanks, -Nate Woodhams