Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:10:31 +1000 (EST) From: brian@albury.net.au (Brian Scott) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: read/write access to NFS mounted root Message-ID: <199708260710.RAA25909@orac.albury.net.au>
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Hello, I have set up all the necessary things (as far as I can tell) to do a BOOTP/TFTP/NFS boot of a modified install version of FreeBSD. I have got to the point that the system boots quite nicely and goes into sysinstall (just like it should). Unfortunately, the root file system is mounted read only. Apart from that everythings fine. If I mount a floppy as /tmp I can actually make sysinstall do a few things for me. Unfortunately when it gets down to the hard stuff, sysinstall seems to want to start creating devices for the disk partitions. I tried creating these from the other machine to remove the need for them to be made (the server machine is also FreeBSD so this should be OK) but it still tries to do it itself. Is there something important that I'm missing? Am I trying to do something impossible? Thanks for any help, Brian Scott
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