Very Computer

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

Or your rpc.bootparramd isn't configured right for some reason.

When debugging, tcpdump can come in handy.

Hubert
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     -r      The -r option allows mount RPCs requests for regular files to be
             served.  Although this seems to violate the mount protocol speci-
             fication, some diskless workstations do mount requests for their
             swapfiles and expect them to be regular files. Since a regular
             file cannot be specified in /etc/exports, the entire file system
             that the swapfiles reside in will have to be exported with the
             ``-alldirs'' flag.

Note that this option wasn't supported in previous versions of
FreeBSD.  It is in the 2.2 development branch, and was later merged
into FreeBSD 2.1.5.

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J"org Wunsch                                              Unix support engineer

Quote:>> 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

> Where do you get this error, on the Sparc or on the FreeBSD machine?
> Problem might be that your swapfile (file, not partiton!) isn't exported
> propperly.

-Paul-

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