Thanks for responding and sorry it took me so long to respond. I am still
having the same problem that I was. / is mounted through nfs. Do you know if
the dhclient does the same as you described in 6? Also, I think that they
did away with mfs in version 6.
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From: <i>Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]></i><br>To: <i>kevin
stovall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]></i><br>CC:
<i>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org</i><br>Subject: <i>Re: Diskless Boot
Problem</i><br>Date: <i>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:10:37 +0200</i><br>>kevin
stovall wrote:<br>>>The root file system seems to mount correctly, but
I am not sure <br>>>how to tell. The root file system is
/home/diskless_ro which is set <br>>>up correctly for NFS. I don't
have a memory file system set up, so <br>>>this is likely the
problem.<br>><br>>You will use either or, not both. A memory file
system will ocupy <br>>ram so if you don't have much it's not a good
idea. Also, var and <br>>tmp may be created as mfs if these are not
mounted or toggled in <br>>rc.conf. (see /etc/rc.d/var and /etc/rc.d/tmp)
so you may run out of <br>>ram.<br>><br>>Check that you can mount
the nfs root device. There are some <br>>permission stuff to be aware of
if you have multiple exports on the <br>>same device.<br>><br>>I
tried once, a while ago to set up diskless systems, and wrote my <br>>own
guide to keep track of what I was doing, you can read it
here:<br>><br>> www.daemonsecurity.com/pxe<br>><br>>I didn't
get it working, my problem was that the dhclient of 5.4 <br>>would
unconfigure the NIC before obtaining a new lease meaning that <br>>any
NFS mounted filesystems was lost and then it couldn't write the
<br>>lease file. This problem could posibly be solved by using mfs for
<br>>/var and / but I only have 112 MB ram, so I prefered to have it nfs
<br>>mounted.<br>><br>>Cheers, Erik<br>><br>>--<br>>Ph:
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