> From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
> Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 and XKernel trouble: dies with exception
> 
> [ On Wed, April 15, 1998 at 18:10:23 (-0400), J. Maynard Gelinas wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 and XKernel trouble: dies with exception
> >
> >      BTW: I've never installed netbsd diskless, so I don't know what
> >   to do about installing the miniroot on netswap space... could
> >   someone elaborate on this?
> 
> I think diskless(8) is accurate enough.  The only weird thing is NFS
> mounting a swap file (you have to make a directory, and mount it as a
> directory, and then it appears as a file afterwards).
> 

      So then I gave bogus information on how to make a swap 'file'.
      To the original poster, please note _this_ and check diskless(8)
      for 'the full scoop.'

> Last time I tried this on NetBSD/sun3 though it wouldn't run reliably.
> If it even got the X11 server up and running things would soon start
> dropping core, seemingly because of problems with VM or shared
> libraries, or both.
> 
      The problem continues, thought I suspect it's better now than
      what you experienced.  I get around 24 hours of continuous
      operation before it goes south.  Looks like a memory leak
      in the kernel somewhere... (though, that's pretty obvious). ;-) 

      [snip]

      SunOS 4.1.1 still beats NetBSD/Sun3 hands down for stability and
      hardware support.  Still, I'd rather run NetBSD anb know I'm
      using an open source OS - that other folks are still updating -
      than use 4.1.1, which I doubt anyone at Sun even _remembers_
      ever existed.  Why do you expect to have a problem serving SunOS
      Xkernel binaries from a NetBSD NFS server?  NetBSD supports RARP
      and tftp, and you should be able to mount SunOS filesystems (you
      needn't write over what you already have).  Am I missing
      something obvious here?

--jmg