[Info-vax] Sharing CDROM on Alpha Server

John john at nospam.com
Sun Jan 17 09:55:32 EST 2021


On 01/17/21 00:22, nw.jo... at ieee.org wrote:
> I have been experimenting with mop-loading NetBSD from a Linux system, but it panics when it tries to mount root after 7500 packets successfully sent over the net. (I'm using TCP/IP not DECNet).  So I thought I would try booting the NetBSD install CDROM from my Alpha server. Nowhere in the manuals can I find out how to set up MOP or NFS server under VMS.  Is this something that is so old that support has been dropped?  I suppose I could leave mopd on the Linux machine and just try to get the ISO image under NFS if that would work.
> Any help appreciated,
> Thanks
> Nigel Johnson

Could it be something to do with block size ?. More familiar
with NFS shares here, where some problems exist between
some versions of Linux and other nfs implementations.

Try increasing the block size, or perhaps run under a more
unix like tftp / bootparams boot procedure if there's
support for that...



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