Subject: Diskless booting w/ NetBSD server
To: noud de brouwer <noud@knot.nl>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/20/1997 15:36:44
Noud, you should not run be running mountd or nfsd from inetd.  They
are meant to be executed as stand alone daemons.  There are also some
issues with the contents of the exports file which are particular to
NetBSD.

I run a diskless setup using a NetBSD/SPARC 2 as the file server, and a
Sun 3/80 as a client (nudge, nudge..sun3x-current runs multi-user if
anyone is interested =).  My exports file looks like this:

/usr/home/netbsd/root /usr/home/netbsd/root/swap -maproot=0 simon

It is important to note that the swap file is actually presented as a
mountable directory, even though it is a file.  The NetBSD mountd requires
this in order to serve the `mount my swap file' request that your 3/60 is
going to issue.  Do not use the -alldirs option - it doesn't work.

-J