Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:53:24 +0300 (MSK) From: Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top in PicoBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103222148090.27582-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> In-Reply-To: <200103221846.TAA25698@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Well, it would be great, but how to set up etherboot for old noname ne2000-compatible cards (some of them are even ISA)? Is there a guide somewhere in the Internet? I've read 'man diskless' but have not found it sufficient... Thanks, Alex > In your setup, why don't you just use etherboot to > load the kernel and mount everything over nfs (saving the trouble > and limitations of going through picobsd) ? > > Apart from creating a shared readonly root partition (for which i > have a script, but it is not committed yet), > /etc/rc.diskless[12] do almost everything you need, i have been using > them for over 2 years now. > > cheers > luigi > > > > Read again carefully the above paragraph I wrote: libkvm depends on the > > > accessibility of the file that contains unstripped, ungzipped binary image > > > of the running kernel. You don't have it in the standard versions of > > > PicoBSD. Ergo: libkvm fails to work properly. > > > > OK, thanks, I've got it. Maybe, workaround for my case (i.e. when PicoBSD > > is used only for boot and /usr then exported from host running real > > FreeBSD) would be to save unstripped, ungzipped binary image of the > > running kernel somewhere during picobsd build process and then copy it > > from this FreeBSD server to picobsdhost:/kernel via NFS from /etc/rc. The > > former should not be too hard (I believe one more line in pico make file, > > right? the more so that there is no need in implementing it into the > > standard src tree, I may do it myself locally), the latter is even more > > easy. Could you give me a hint me what line and where should I insert to > > enable the unstripped kernel save? > > > > Thanks, > > Alex > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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