Subject: Re: Why run NetBSD
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <collver@mad.scientist.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/11/1999 17:03:52
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 11:58:01PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 collver@mad.scientist.com wrote:
>
> > > * State of the art device drivers (shall I say soundcard? :-) Oh, and
> > > just in case you need features like serial console or a netboot...
> >
> > Linux supports my sound card fine. For several months I used a vt320 as
> > the console for my Linux box, and I've booted using NFS for my root
> > filesystem.
> >
> Can you swap over NFS on linux yet? (Just curious :)
I don't believe you can out of the box, but there are hacks floating
around to do it.
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/nfs-swap/
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Ben Collver -- collver@mad.scientist.com
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