Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: FAUCONNE@FRSIM51.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Server/client issues Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <2397@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 26 Oct 89 02:52:14 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 52 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 174, message 10 of 15 Thanks so much to all of you (actually many!) who answered to my previous question concerning the installation of Common Lisp. The beginner Sun system manager strikes again. I have two more questions for you Sun wizards. I RTFM and I couldn't find the answers. I have a Sparcstation I with a small disk booting as a diskless client (for now, I'll figure out how to use the local disk later) on a Sun 4/110 with a 330 Mb external SCSCI disk configured as an heterogenous server (sun4c isn't exactly sun4, right ?). I'm running SunOS 4.0.3c. The first question is: is there a way to have an unattended boot on the client SparcStation ? I only managed to correctly boot it by typing: ok boot le()vmunix -a and answering to the various questions regarding file systems (most of the time hitting CR is enough but I have to specify "nfs" a couple of times). I eventually get the login prompt and a `cat /etc/mtab' confirms that the filesystems have been mounted as expected. If I try: ok boot le() (or if I leave the machine auto-boot) the machine starts to boot smoothly (SunOS banner appears, NFS filesystems found OK) but at some point in the boot it stops, and complains about a recalibrate failure on fd0. Not surprising. We don't have a floppy disk drive. It then asks for the root file system (either fd%da or sd%da). I have to abort it. I checked that /etc/bootparams, /export/root/clientname/etc/fstab are correct (they all refer to the exported filesystems on the server) so why on earth does the machine try to set up a root filesystem on a local disk although it appears to find them remotely during the early stages of the boot ? Here's another one. I installed SunLink DNI 6.0 on the server. It runs OK but now I want to have it running on the client SparcStation. The DNI installation guide states on some page that I have to rebuild a kernel for the client machine by invoking dni_install. So far, so good. The problem is it only makes sense to me to build it on the target machine but I can't (first of all the /usr filesystem is mounted ro on the client machine!). Actually the sun_install script doesn't seem to know anything about the sun4c architecture. I got really confused when I read on some other page of the installation guide that I should *not* run dni_install for the client nodes (how will the new kernel be built?) but instead only dni_rc_inst. I'm stuck for now so if anybody can help... Sorry to use up the network bandwidth with so naive questions. I promise that when I become a Sun wizard I will help my fellow Sun beginners :-) Regards -- Alain (VMS SysMgr lost in an Un*x world)