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From: mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar)
Subject: NetBSD - Diskless boot
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	I am trying to boot NetBSD on a Sun IPC from a FreeBSD machine.
Things go well till it tries to initialize the swap partition.  The 
swap partition is also remotely mounted.  I have tried a directory as
well as a flat file for the swap file.  Must it be a true disk partition
or can it be faked?


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			Jin Mazumdar        

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