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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6821 ; Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:36:23 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01!chmr From: chmr@fstgds01 (Christoph Robitschko) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Has anyone done this? Date: 15 Jan 1993 19:11:07 GMT Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1j728bINN4qd@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at> References: <1j468kINNee@parsifal.umkc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7] X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7] In article <1j468kINNee@parsifal.umkc.edu> Gerald Combs (gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu) wrote: :> :> We have a PC that we want to install 386BSD on, but it only has a :> 60-megabyte hard drive. We were wondering if we could split the :> installation between a small (< 20 MB) partition and a large NFS-mounted :> partition on one of our other machines. :> :> Is this feasible? If so, what essentials do we need on the local :> partition in order to boot up and mount the NFS partition(s)? :> I have a PC running with only a 1.2 MB floppy (of which ~450 kB are used). The floppy contains boot blocks and a kernel, all the rest, including root file system and swap space reside on another 386bsd machine. (I can take the floppy out as soon as the kernel is loaded.) I edited swap386bsd.c (based on /sys/conf/nfsswapvmunix.c) manually to include network addresses of client and server (panics if I specify a gateway too), and the NFS file handles of root file system and swap file. Booted as fast if not faster than the machine with local harddisks. Crashed on heavy load (somewhere in the nfs-swap routines) and XFree (don't know where and why), though. Recently, it started to become SLOW on NFS access, up to the point where it times out on server access, finds the server again, times out,... Looks like I introduced a serious bug somewhere 8-( . Real diskless booting is not that far away... Christoph P.S.: The From: line in the header is probably wrong; my mail address is chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at