Subject: swap with "diskless" boot
To: None <current@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Clarence Wilkerson <netbsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/1996 22:49:34
I would like to boot off the net, but use the swap partition of
my local hard drive as swap. This is on a sparc booting off
another sparc, with the clinet running netbsd 1.1 and the boot host
Sunois 4.1.3.

When I do what seems obvious, leaving the swap line out of the /etc/bootparams
on the boot host, and putting 
/dev/sd0b none swap sw 0 0
in the /etc/fstab of the bootimage, the
boot goes quite aaways and then I get an RPC timeout to the boot host.

If I use the conventional "swap" file on the boot host, it works.

Help? Clarence Wilkerson