On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Ken Wellsch wrote:

> > According to the diskless(8) manpage the NetBSD bootserver should have
> > an /etc/exports entry like the following:
> > 
> >  /export/myclient -maproot=root -alldirs myclient
> > 
> > Anyway, it doesn't work as mountd keeps complaining about "bad exports
> > list" as long as the -alldirs flag is present in /etc/exports. In order
> > to get the vs2000 to boot the kernel I had to change the /etc/exports
> > entry to: ...
> 
> Yeah.  I tried this entire procedure and encountered the same partial
> sucess you have had.  In my case I was booting a SPARC IPC from my NetBSD
> 1.1B equiped uVAX-II.  Got as far as mounting swap and blamo.  I had the
> same problems with trying to guess how the heck to export a "file."  I
> got all the same sorts of errors you did.  Since I am a pinhead, I don't
> know how to do this and thankfully got some good advice and instead built
> a terrific little portable SCSI drive I then used to bootstrap SPARC boxes
> from scratch.  Not exactly as easy with a VS2000 though I don't think.
> Thought I'd add my usual whiny two-bits given I was doing the inverse,
> booting a non-VAX box from a VAX via the documented "diskless" method... 

	Are you sure that /export/myclient is the mount point for the
	filesystem? If you are using -alldirs I think you have to export
	a mount point from the server..

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

.---- I've been too drunk to love ----.-- I've been too drunk to remember -.
|          too drunk to care          |    the hell of the night before    |
|  looked like death, felt like hell  |   I've been drinking myself blind  |
`------ been the worse for wear ------'-- and still I'll drink some more --'