[H-GEN] Ding-dong, The Drive is Dead

Martin Pool mbp at wistful.humbug.org.au
Sun Aug 30 22:55:15 EDT 1998


On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:09:00PM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> 2) Boot NetBSD over the network with tftp or something, and mount the
>    filesystem via NFS.  Erk.  That's not going to work, unless X can
>    make a socket on an NFS filesystem.  (Come to think of it, I don't
>    know if that's even *close* to correct.)

Probably possible, assuming you can get some kind of boot medium,
perhaps from a smaller partition on your old drive.  

Special files on NFS filesystems aren't supported (?), but X can work
over unix-domain (or localhost tcp-domain) sockets which need not bind
to the remote filesystem.

-- 
Martin Pool




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