[comp.sys.sgi] Booting IRIS 'diskless', and interleaving swap questions

feigin@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Adam Feigin) (09/21/88)

I have a couple of questions (which may be naive) but here goes:

I have 2 IRIS's, a 3030 and a 3130. The 3030 has (1) 170MB disk, and the
3130 has (2) 170 MB disks. The 3130 runs Wavefront software, which eats
up disk space rapidly.

Ideally, I'd like to do the following. I'd like to boot the 3130 'diskless'
off of the 3030 via TCP, and then mount the disk with the wavefront
software (currently on /usr1). This would leave me the entire / & /usr
disk free for the wavefront image files....Can this be done ???

Finally, we're contemplating getting a second 170MB drive for the
3030; can I setup the kernel to interleave swap on both 'b'
partitions ???

Any input is much appreciated.

						Adam
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