Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A2000 & NFS Message-ID: <58276@sun.uucp> Date: 28 Jun 88 20:20:57 GMT References: <228@nlgvax.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 36 In article <228@nlgvax.UUCP> hans@nlgvax.UUCP (Hans Zuidam) writes: > Has someone experience with using an A2000 and Ameristar's Ethernet/NFS > package using a Sun as fileserver for software development purposes. Do it all the time. >I would like to know something about topics like: > . Can I run without a local harddisk? (but use two floppies) Yes, the Amiga 2000 I have is set up with two floppies and 3 MB of ram. It used to have one floppy and that worked fine as well but running diskcopy was a pain :-) > . How much memory do you need? (2MB, 4MB, more :-) ) I use 3Mb and that is fine, haven't tried it with 1Mb but the internet stuff is pretty tight code so I don't think it would take to long. > . Do GURUs have impact on the Suns? No. Since NFS is stateless no activity on the client can disturb the filesystem of the server. > . How easy is it to configure/maintain? There was a brief period while I was figuring out which machine I wanted to mount and how to set up some routes to it, but after that I put the stuff into my startup-sequence and forgot about it. >Hans Zuidam E-Mail: hans@nlgvax.UUCP The only "problem" on the horizon is that 1.3 uses a bunch of the file protection bits and these don't map well to UNIX protection bits so after copying a file from the NFS disk to the floppy you may find it protected from Delete. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.