[Geobunny]

Does anyone know where and how Solaris or Linux clients store their swap files/partition when they're being netbooted? I have a bunch of Macs which for one reason or another have no hard drive, I've managed to convince the OS X.2 clients to netboot and work with their shadowfile and swap file stored on an NFS server. Previously OS X would just shut down the client (netbooted machine) if no local hard drive is present.

Problem is, as soon as OS X starts to swap stuff into/out of RAM, the window server and all apps die. I've got OS X.2 server running on a G4 and all clients are G4s too, the network is an 8 port 100 base-T hub so I don't think hardware is a problem.

Any ideas, or am I stuck until Apple rewrites the OS for me, or I go buy some more RAM and hard disks?!

[Jellytussle]

I have no helpful advice, i'm afraid; but i'd like to ask how you offloaded the swap. I looked at 10.2 NetBoot a couple of weeks back, with a view to using it to deliver client drive images with 10.2 server's CLI version of ASR. When i found the swap & shadow was local to the client, being time constrained, i gave up and went with OS9. Was this a matter of altering rc.netboot - or is there more to it?

Oh, just a thought: have you tried running swap over NFS on a non-netboot 10.2 mac - perhaps that will help narrow down why it dies.