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From: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
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Subject: NeXT netboot difficulties
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Date: 17 Oct 89 19:13:51 GMT
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Help with NeXT network needed!

Situation

10 NeXTs, two with 660MB Hard Disks, NeXT-only network.

System 1: 'gauss' set up as configuration server, and boot server.
System 2: 'euler' set up a clone configuration server, and houses the
'/Users' directory, home of the network-wide user accounters.

Problem:  If I add a system to boot over the network it works fine if
I tell netinfo to boot it off of gauss.  If I tell netinfo to boot it from
euler, it loads the kernel OK, but panics with the famous error 13 when it
tries to mount root.

Clues:

If I boot euler from the monitor, it exports /Users, and then LATER does an
exportfs to export / and /clients, which are essential to booting
systems over the network.  This exportfs FAILS for / because /Users is
already exported, which is a NO-NO apparently.

How would you set up network-wide accounts with ONE server, then?
Wouldn't you see the same problem?  As Phil Donahue says, 'help me out
here.'

                               "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking
Kent Williams                   part that wonders what the part that  isn't
williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu   thinking isn't thinking of" - TMBG

 
                               "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking
Kent Williams                   part that wonders what the part that  isn't
williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu   thinking isn't thinking of" - TMBG