----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Joules <peter@joules0.demon.co.uk>
To: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 03:23
Subject: Re: vax netbooting question


> In article <Pine.SGI.4.04.10001281124490.22125-100000@world.std.com>,
> Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com> writes
> >If you're running RedHat 6.0, 6.1 or some other distribution based on one
> >of those RedHats... they've seriously mucked their NFS implementation.
The
> >mountd under Linux answers the initial request from from the bootloader
to
> >NFS mount the Linux filesystem using NFSv3.  The mountd is supposed to
say
> >"I don't know about NFSv3" but instead it says that it does know about
it.
> >Then when the actual NFS mount happens, Linux fails miserable because it
> >doesn't actually support NFSv3.
> >
> >The best solution at this point is to use a non-Linux NFS server.
>
> Whilst I hesitate to comment on what Brian has said as he wrote the
> netbooting instructions...
>
> With 6.0 (and, I assume, 6.1) if the nfs daemon is started 'no-nfs-
> version 3' it works fine as this stops it lying about the version 3
> support.
> --
> Regards
> Pete

And you have a diskless Vax which is getting all the files from the linux
server ?

curious emanuel