I tend to just create a 'swap' file in the exported client root
	directory and mount it as '/swap' :)

	I have dhcpd running continually and the vax just seems to take
	its time to boot sometimes...

	1.4.1 will make swapping more reliable, though that only helps
	if you can mount the swap :)

		David/absolute

	Then let us live and love so that people will say;
	     "The devil as well as god... is an englishman."

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Chris Craft wrote:

> k... I already had nfs_server turned on, but I forgot rarpd! Now things
> are churning away very happily, except that I can't figure out how to
> get swap to mount.  Also, it seems that things run very slowly on
> boot... maybe I shouldn't run bootpd from inetd?  Anyhow, back to the
> swap dilemma. My fstab points at the swap file on the server (I've tried
> many phrasings of the incantation), but still claims not to find the
> file when it wants to turn swap on.  Any hints on swapping over nfs? (Or
> should I bite the bullet, and go to 1.4.1? (That is, assuming that 1.4.1
> fixes the nfs/swap flakiness!))
> 
> Thanks again,
> Chris.
> ccraft@netgenius.org
> 
> David Brownlee wrote:
> > 
> >         Do you have nfs_server configured on in rc.conf.
> >         The code in rc that cleans out /var/db/mountdtab is conditional
> >         on that...
> > 
> >                 David/absolute
> > 
> >   -=-  "Old Red he died, and every single landlord in the district cried"  -=-
> > 
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Chris Craft wrote:
> > 
> > > I've finally built my "ChannelProcessor" into the cabinet of a uVII
> > > (the 4'x3'x4' rack with wheels), and I keep getting an error that
> > > /var/db/mountdtab cannot be opened.  I looked and the file wasn't there,
> > > so I 'touch'ed it and made sure is was rwx by anyone (just in case).
> > > That didn't work either.  I've made sure that mountd, bootpd and mopd
> > > are configured in rc.conf (what a concept! I'm used to RedHat) on the
> > > server (486dx2/80, NetBSD 1.4).  Mopd goes, looks like bootpd goes, too,
> > > but everything stops at: root: server:10.0.0.7 path:/usr/vax/uv2b.  Any
> > > obvious hints?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
> > > ccraft@netgenius.org
> > >
>