On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 10:03:29 -0400, "Michael J. Saletnik" <michael@ties.org> wrote: [...] > > * bootparams query for NFS path of mini-root > > * NFS mount of mini-root > > This step, however, would fail. Now, it may be version-specific, but > the Solaris version that I had (7 or 8, I'm not sure) could not deal > with out-of-order NFS packets, which the Linux server was sending (and > presumably a Solaris NFS server would not). Tcpdump easily confirmed > the scenario. indeed. and even worse, when you patched the nfsd to only send packets smaller than the MTU, it would break later on in the install where it was expecting 8K packets and couldn't handle anything less. i was told by SUN that this issue should be fixed in later releases of 8 and 9. though i have to admit i've never tried it myself, running only debian/sparc at home and solaris at work. > Of course, my Sparc Classic runs Debian so well, I never really looked > back. :-) same here. but then again, my [EF]4[58]00*s are running quite well with solaris. -- Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr | ignorami: n: The BOFH art of folding problem <mike+sig@cluon.priv.at> | lusers into representational shapes.
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