From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 00:00:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA25300 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 00:00:02 -0700 Received: from cc.jyu.fi (root@cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA25285 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 23:59:52 -0700 Received: from [130.234.41.39] (zaphod.maccc.jyu.fi) by cc.jyu.fi with SMTP id AA12132 (5.67a/IDA-1.4.4 for questions@FreeBSD.org); Tue, 12 Sep 1995 10:02:41 +0300 X-Sender: kallio@pop.jyu.fi Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 10:04:09 +0300 To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Subject: * diskless netboot questions * Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I wonder if one FrrBSD box can be the server for the diskless. The Handbook >> is only speaking about HP9000, Sun/solaris > >But, of course. >Boyd It is funny, but in the FreeBSD Handbook is: "Tested machines: HP9000 ... Sun/Solaris" and nothing about FreeBSD >> Do you know if it is possible to define a local swap if the PC has only DOS >> filesystem? That is can FreeBSD use DOS filesystem and some file there as >> swap file? Or do I have to repartition the disk and make a FreeBSD >> partition and swsap there? > >I think so. It is accomplished via the vnconfig stuff but I am not sure >how to use that as primary swap. I expect I will be looking into that soon. >Can you use nfs swap for now? No. The netboot.com is just beepbeepbeep until I push reset. What is wrong? What does this beep mean, do you have any idea? Should netboot show some progress display on the screen? I am getting nothing, only this beep, could it be a problem with the display card? The Ethernet card should be OK. It is SMC Ultra and it is tested in DOS and Linux. Seppo -- +-- Seppo Kallio ----- kallio@jyu.fi ---+ ! Computing Center ! Fax +358-41-603611 Phone +358-41-603606 ! ! University of Jyvaskyla ! http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio ! +-- Finland --+-- 62.14N 25.44E -- +