From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 10:49:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23157 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:49:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23104 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:49:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA17037; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:49:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:49:11 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: hellenic cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless booting across the network In-Reply-To: <199803170952.JAA18686@mx2.rmplc.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, hellenic wrote: > I am trying to get a client to 'disklessly' boot across the network. > /usr/rootfs/client/etc/rc > --------------------------- > #!/bin/sh > HOME=/; export HOME > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin > export PATH > # swapon -a ^^^ I think this may be your problem. My diskless clients do execute swapon -a > /sbin ifconfig ed0 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 Don't do this. The network interface is already config'd You do want to config lo0. I use a standard /etc/rc with no ifconfig_edX in rc.conf > mount_nfs server:/usr/rootfs/client / > mount_nfs server:/usr /usr I also let the standard rc take care of mounts via /etc/fstab Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message