Subject: swap with "diskless" boot
To: Clarence Wilkerson <netbsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu>
From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 02/05/1996 17:59:52
>>>>> "Clarence" == Clarence Wilkerson <netbsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu> writes:

Clarence> I would like to boot off the net, but use the swap partition
Clarence> of my local hard drive as swap. This is on a sparc booting
Clarence> off another sparc, with the clinet running netbsd 1.1 and
Clarence> the boot host Sunois 4.1.3.

	One thing that I saw a lot on DECstations running BSD
(yes... bsd all hacked up by a local sysadin...) was a local root+swap
and then remote /usr and /u.  You might try that solution.  The root
would only cost you about 15-or-so meg.

Dave.

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