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Re: Mounting files instead of directories?

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On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 4:02:44 AM UTC-7, Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> Bruce Esquibel <bj...@ripco.com> writes:

> >I still have some of the sparc pizza boxes buried in the basement but haven't
> >touched them since the late 90's.

(snip)
> I think only the ELC and SLC (basically an IPC pizzabox mounted on the back
> of a monitor) had no room for an internal disk; all the others SPARCs did have
> an internal disk.

The one I am working on is a Sun 3/E, which is a 6U VME board (CPU, RAM,
and serial ports), with an other 6U board for SCSI and ethernet.

It didn't take long to get RARP and TFTP working on FreeBSD, but I couldn't
get bootparamd to work on either FreeBSD or Linux. As far as I can tell, 
neither one will accept the packets addressed to the 255.255.255.255
broadcast address.  But then I got bootparamd, compiled from source, 
to run on OS X. 

Then it mounts root, loads in vmunix, and tries to mount swap.

It I put the name of the directory with the swap file in bootparamd, it
looks like it mounts it, but then says 0 bytes swap. If I put the name
of the swap file in, the mount fails.

It seems to me that FreeBSD doesn't allow mounting of files, only
directories. It is about 20 years since I last did any of this, and forgot
that it mounted a file, but that looks like what it wants to do.

I have an IPC and IPX, both seem to have dead power supplies.
Might just be bad capacitors, but I didn't look into them yet.
If I had one of them running, I could try it for a server.

thanks,

-- glen

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Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-15 09:59 -0700
  Re: Mounting files instead of directories? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-09-15 23:19 +0200
    Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-15 14:32 -0700
      Re: Mounting files instead of directories? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-09-16 07:56 +0200
  Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-09-16 10:47 +0000
    Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2016-09-16 11:02 +0000
      Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 06:22 -0700
        Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2016-09-16 13:28 +0000
          Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 12:56 -0700
            Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 13:28 -0700
              Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 14:39 -0700

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