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

[Craig Eldershaw]

>> 2) Boot NetBSD over the network with tftp or something, and mount the
>>    filesystem via NFS.  
>
>Probably possible, assuming you can get some kind of boot medium,
>perhaps from a smaller partition on your old drive.  

Wouldn't it be easier to just put the drive in someone else's box
(presumably after asking them nicely :-) and run fdisk off their 
system ?

>>    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.)
>
>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.

Hmmm...I've run Linux diskless with X no troubles.  Not sure if Linux
has an enhanced NFS, or it was cleverly detecting that it needed to do
some alternative (without any prompting).

Cheers,
	Craig.