Hello,
I've got this working fine. I still have some tweaking to do but I've
learned much about doing this last night. I did not follow the howto all
the way. I created a NFS export on my RH box that contains a whole root
tree for the workstation. The howto says to share the tree. I have enough
disk space to not share. The workstation has 32 megs so I may need some
swap but not much. I did run into an interesting issue with this. I
created a swap file using the commands below:
dd if=/dev/zero of=swap bs=1024k count=20
sync
mkswap -v1 ./swap
sync
swapon ./swap
Then I get error messages stating that this file has an invalid swap
signature. I can only think that this could be caused by the fact I'm using
nfs on root. Maybe someone here may know the issue. But if I can get swap
this way, I'll have none.
I've written a small init program called xinit which does minor things to
conserve memory and only runs X -query hp735 on the console. hp735 is my HP
9000 725/135 HP-UX 11.00 workstation. After messing around and getting all
the hp and CDE fonts onto the nfs share it worked great!!. Is there a
chooser that will run in X so I do not have to do a direct query?
I do see some interesting issues with the dev directory being nfs. I
believe the full i-node contents do not get copied as a v-node on the
workstation. mknod seems to think
everything in the dev directory is a directory and not special files. It
has not caused a problem yet but I may just change to devfs.
for the root to be nfs and my network to be 10mbps it runs fast enough to
not really know the difference.
Chris
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