> I am trying to get the sparc to net boot over my local network from a PC
> running FreeBSD 2.2.7.  I have the diskless setup configured on my FreeBSD box
> but I keep getting a strange error.  Perhaps this is the wrong place for this
> question, but the error I'm getting is:
> 
> mountd[106]: Bad exports list line /netboot/sparc
> 
> my exports file is this:
> 
> /netboot/sparc -maproot=0:0 -alldirs sparc.ncw.net
> 
> Has anyone run into this problem?  I get an error while trying to boot,
> something like unable to open device.  I am assuming that the problem lies with
> the directories needed not being properly nfs exported.  The command I use to
> boot is 'boot net netbsd -s'.

I've booted a Sun ELC from a FreeBSD box many times. Took some fiddling
the first time - tcpdump is your friend. Anyway, I ended up having to
export the whole file system on the FreeBSD box (and using -alldirs to
let the ELC mount only part of the file system).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no