Obviously this was more of a shot in the dark than I thought. Still, you 
have to start somewhere, and at least now I'm well-informed enough to 
proceed properly. 


Responses to Hubert's comments: 

>  * Please remove your name from the Copyright message, it will be in
>    the commit log once in-tree. :)

Just wanted to make sure I could prove I did it. :-) 

>  * Small typo "personaltrial" => "personal trial"

Fixed. 

>  * Wording in the paragraph replacing the two projects is a bit unclear
>    to me. How about: ``For doing useful things, only netboot is useful,
>    so only that is described here.'' IMHO it'd still be nice to have
>    instructions on doing both, esp. for a "trial" CD :)

Probably a fair statement, I can easily reword it. FYI, the reason I did 
only netboot instructions here was because it seemed to be the consensus of 
the list that it was what was useful -- but you make a good point about a 
"trial" CD, so I should probably put pieces of that back. 

>  * You can write manpages just as "exports(5)", the .list->.html
>    conversion will automatically expand that.

Didn't know enough about the conversion...now I do. :-) 

>  * At least using a NetBSD NFS server, it's not "maproot=root" but
>    "-root=0"

Just going from my OpenBSD experience there. I'll make a note of the 
difference between OSes. 

>  * "ps aux | grep [mount/nfs]d" is not ready for cut&paste,
>    "ps aux | egrep '(mount|nfs)'d" is.

I knew that was wrong, but wasn't quite sure of the correct syntax. Thanks. 

>  * besides nfs_server=yes, mention lockd=yes and statd=yes

I was completely unaware of those options. I'll put them in...and meanwhile, 
any info on what exactly they do would be appreciated. :-) 

>  * start dhcp by putting dhcpd=yes into /etc/rc.conf and then running
>    "sh /etc/rc.d/dhcpd start".

My knowledge appears more and more superficial as we go along here...but you 
raise a good point, so I'll modify that (not to mention my home system). 

>  * Maybe use an example "/home/dreamcast" instead of some non-existing
>    "<dreamcast-world>"

Very good point, will do. 

>  * Maybe inline the fstab example. It's easier to print etc.

Again, a good point, since it's so small. Can-do. 

>  * Submit updates by mailing them to www@netbsd.org or me.

Thanks for that info. :-) 

> We'd be happy if you could send us updates for the FAQ as well.

I'll get cracking on that once the HOWTO is in good shape. 

Alex Kirk