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From: "Sean O'Connell" <sto@stat.Duke.EDU>
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Subject: conf/21540: installworld panics for diskless clients
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>Number:         21540
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       installworld panics for diskless clients
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 25 10:30:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sean O'Connell
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE (-current as well, I would imagine)

>Description:

	Now that make installworld, uses copies the install target
	binaries into /tmp/inst??? (or whatever), the /tmp and /var/tmp
	in /etc/rc.diskless2 should NOT be nullfs mounts.  The glaring
	warning in /etc/rc.diskless1 is seemingly ignored :)

	I use the bootp/nfs-root kernel along wiht a script to do
	complete wipes of machines and then install via nfs to the
	local hard drive.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Boot with a bootp/nfs-root kernel.  mount the local disk and
	nfs mount the /usr/src & /usr/obj from buildbox, cd /usr/src
	attempt make installworld ... POOF! panic due to cp to nullfs
	mount.

>Fix:

	Replace nullfs mount for /tmp with another mfs mount point
	(should be sufficient large for isntall bins and slop).  I
	use the following in /etc/rc.diskless1

	mount_mfs -s 196608 -T qp120at dummy /tmp

	and then comment out the section involving the 
	mount_null /var/tmp /tmp


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