Re: Problem installing NetBSD 7.1.1 on my SparcStation 5

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 15 January 2018 at 17:47, Julien Savard <juliensavard17%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Well I tried with :
>
> NetDBS 7.1.1
> NetBSD 7.1
> NetBSD 7.0.2
> NetBSD 6.1.5
>
> I'm starting to strongly suspect my NFS server on Solaris. Maybe there is
> something more to do on Solaris or something "not standard". I'll try to
> switch my NFS share from my Soalris server to a NetBSD or Linux server.


What are the details of the netbooted NetBSD - do you extract NetBSD
into a directory on the server and boot that as the nfs root?
Did you run MAKEDEV on the server or let the client create
dynamically? (latter is probably better).

David