On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, Tom Calderwood wrote:

> I have a sparc running NetBSD "current" and I am trying to set it up as
> a server for a Sun3. Has anyone actually tried this scenario (as opposed
> to booting a NetBSD 3/50 off of a SunOS sparc?).
>=20
>  If I try to export both the client's root directory and swap file:
>=20
> /usr/src/export/bozo.bbn.com/root -maproot=3Droot bozo.bbn.com
> /usr/src/export/bozo.bbn.com/swap -maproot=3Droot bozo.bbn.com
>=20
>  The export of swap will fail "Can't change attributes for
> /usr/src/export/annie.bbn.com/root".  This error appears to
> be given when the mount() system call returns a EPERM. If
> I put swap ahead of root in the exports file, then root will
> fail the same way.
>=20
> If I try to use "-alldirs" on /usr/src:
>=20
> /usr/src -alldirs -maproot=3Droot bozo.bbn.com
>=20
> The Sun3 starts to boot but panics:
>=20
> NetBSD 1.0A (DISKLESS) #2: Thu Jul  6 17:43:09 EDT 1995
>     gwr@venus:/play/gwr/NetBSD-gwr/src/sys/arch/sun3/compile/DISKLESS
> Model: Sun 3/50
> real mem  =3D 8372224
> avail mem =3D 6889472
> using 51 buffers containing 417792 bytes of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> obctl0 at mainbus0
> idprom0 at obctl0 hostid 0x12005c30
> fpu0 at mainbus0 (mc68881)
> obmem0 at mainbus0
> bwtwo0 at obmem0 addr 0x100000 (1152x900)
> obio0 at mainbus0
> zs0 at obio0 addr 0x20000 level 6 softpri 3
> zs1 at obio0 addr 0x0 level 6 softpri 3
> eeprom0 at obio0 addr 0x40000
> clock0 at obio0 addr 0x60000 level 5
> le0 at obio0 addr 0x120000 level 3 hwaddr 08:00:20:00:1d:a4
> nfs_boot: using network interface 'le0'
> nfs_boot: client_addr=3D0x80590185
> nfs_boot: server_addr=3D0x805901ea
> nfs_boot: hostname=3DANNIE.BBN.COM
> panic: nfs_boot: mountd swap, error=3D72
                                      ^^
I got exactly the same error when trying to set up a diskless
SS1+ with NetBSD-current. I'm not sune what's wrong, but I would
guess that it is the nfs-server that refuses to export plain files
instead of directories.
I tried to put the swapfile on a IBM-RS6000 running AIX3.2, and
suddenly everything worked perfect.
I suppose it must be possible to via some flag tell the server it
should export files, but don't know howto...
 - Anyone got any ideas?

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