On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Paul Boven wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> A few days ago I wrote in that I could not get a kernel with FFS
> commented out to boot on a diskless machine.
> I have since tried several compiles, with and without FFS, debugging,
> GDB and other options but have been unable to reproduce it, though
> the problem reproduced easily earlier.
> I haven't supped or ftp-ed source since, but things work fine now.
> Kernel is almost half the size of our current generic kernel, so 
> definetly worth the effort on an SLC with 16M. 
> 
	Is it possible you changed the kernel config and rebuilt the
	kernel without removing teh compile directory?

> Question: Is there a more efficient way of turning an SLC into a
> X-terminal than this? Right now I boot it, and start X, then telnet
> to the other machine and start a window-manager etc. on the display.
> So the SLC is running a more or less complete NetBSD system, with
> NFS swap and all.

	I'd be inclined to run xdm (just for sheer convenience) - I'd
	really want to have at least the window manager running on the
	SLC

		David/absolute

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