Subject: Re: Exporting files for netboot
To: David Jones <dej@eecg.toronto.edu>
From: Phil Knaack <flipk@vorpal.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/03/1995 17:57:19
>I want to netboot NetBSD/sun3, with filesystems served from a NetBSD/Amiga
>box. But it appears that NFS on NetBSD can't be used to export files.
>Does anyone know how to do this? I want to have /netboot/swap (a 8MB file)
>exported. What should the /etc/exports line look like?
NFS-export the directory /netboot. The kernel will then mount /netboot
and access the swap file and root that way.
This is how runner.vorpal.com [386sx/25 6mb] boots from
blade.vorpal.com [486slc2/66 16mb]:
blade% cat /etc/bootparams
runner.vorpal.com root=blade:/usr/runner/root \
swap=blade:/usr/runner/swap
blade% cat /etc/exports
/usr -root=0 -alldirs runner.vorpal.com
/local -root=0 runner.vorpal.com
blade% dir /usr/runner
total 8013
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 512 Apr 2 14:24 root/
-rw------- 1 root wheel 8192000 Apr 1 16:48 swap
Cheers,
Phil
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Phil Knaack flipk@iastate.edu
Database Programmer, NCREMP Student Development Group flipk@cs.iastate.edu
Regional Extension Office Project Vincent, ISU flipk@vorpal.com