Subject: Re: Exporting files for netboot
To: David Jones <dej@eecg.toronto.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 04/03/1995 20:44:15
On Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:11:28 -0400 
 David Jones <dej@eecg.toronto.edu> wrote:

 > 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?

I netboot a sun 3/50 from my hp380.

(line from /etc/exports)
/misc/sun3      -maproot=root -alldirs ovation.sj.xenotropic.com

This allows the sun to mount /misc/sun3/ov/root and /misc/sun3/ov/swap, 
and /misc/sun3/usr.  Yes, `swap' is an 8mb `zero' file...

Hope this helps you...

Ciao.

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