Re: How to setup SWAP partition for diskless client

[Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah <napi@cel.mimos.my>]

>> How do I set up the SWAP partition for a Linux diskless client using a Linux
>> server's diskspace?  Thanks.
>> 
>You need a special kernel patch to do so. At the moment i've 
>forgotten where to get it, look at the etherboot3.2 documentation.
>
>Then, you can create a swapfile on the client's root partition with
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/SWAPFILE bs=1k count=20000 
>(for a 20 MB swap file).
>
>Then you should do a mkswap /SWAPFILE <filesize> and put a
>swapon in the system start scripts of your client.
>
>Again, you need the NFS swap kernel patch to do so.

Karsten:

Thanks for responding.  I'm using kernel 2.0.30.  Does it already have the NFS
swap kernel feature in it?  Thanks.

Napi