My friend Nathan Ahlstrom and I wrote up some documentation on using
Apollos disklessly.  Check out hte following url:
http://www.cord.edu/homepages/nrahlstr

It is in the middle somewhere.  The documentation should be fairly
current, although it was based on NetBSD-1.2, I am running netBSD-1.3.1
and have seen no differences in the boot procedure.  The part about
swapping over nfs is wrong in our report, instead check out man
diskless(8) and this example /etc/fstab:

hope:/opt/apollo / nfs rw,intr 0 0
hope:/opt/apollo/swapfile none swap sw,nfsmntpt=/swap 0 0

Make sure the mount point for the swapfile is a directory.  This stopped
me for a couple weeks!  Good luck!

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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Stan Brown wrote:

> 	Can anyone point me to some documentation on how to set up diskless
> 	clients form my NetBSD HP systesm?
> 
> 	I have used HP-UX DUX clusters, but I think they are proprietory, and
> 	different from the NetBSD way of doing things.
> 
> 	I found the diskless kernel config file, and I suspect I need to set up
> 	rbootd to serve the client, but I would really appreciate some docs.
> 	Any O'riely books? Or docs on the system?
> 
> 	Thanks.
> 
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> Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    770-996-6955
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