Subject: OT: config files for NetBSD/sun3 as server for diskless
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Elijah L. Wright <ewright@multipro.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 11/30/1996 00:51:19
Could someone tell me (actually, give examples...) how to set up the
/etc/exports and /etc/bootparams files for a machine to run Xkernel?  I'm
using a 3/60 running 1.1 Release as a boot server, rather than my usual
linux boxes and such.  The format of the exports file appears to be
different under netBSD than anything else I've tinkered with.

The specific error I'm getting from the NetBSD machine is 

Nov 29 21:52:12 sun2 mountd[148]: Can't change attributes for /usr/local/src/xke
rnel/export/root/Xkernel.sun3/.
Nov 29 21:52:12 sun2 mountd[148]: Bad exports list line /usr/local/src/xkernel/e
xport/root/Xkernel.sun3/ -ro 192.251.251.35 sunxterm sunxterm.cookeville.org

while the 3/50 I'm trying to get to boot says that mountd on the server is
not responding.  Worse yet, mountd spawns itself until the process table
fills up and the machine has to be rebooted.  =(  Obviously, the IP
addresses I'm using on the non-internet TCP around here are phonied up.  =)
The machine "sun2" is the one with 192.251.251.38, while the 3/50 (sunxterm)
is .35.


Here are the relevant files.  It dies right as it tries to mount the NFS-root.

/etc/exports:

sun2#   cat /etc/exports
/usr/local/src/xkernel/export/root/Xkernel.sun3 -ro 192.251.251.35

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/etc/bootparams:

#xhost root=server:/usr/export/root/Xkernel.sun3
#sunxterm root=sun2:/usr/local/src/xkernel/export/root/Xkernel.sun3
sunxterm.cookeville.org root=192.251.251.38:/usr/local/src/xkernel/export/root/X
kernel.sun3

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Thanks in advance for any advice y'all have to give me...

Elijah Wright.