3.2 server with 3.4-5 clients?

[Mike Ubell]

We have a SUN2 running 3.2.  We have tried to boot a 3/60 client running
3.5 with its root on the server.  It gets to the point of saying: setting
sub net mask ...  and then hangs.  Ping says the client is alive.  Other
clients with their own local root partitions talk to the server without
problems.  3.4 has on the client has the same result.  Is there an
incompatibility between 3.2 and 3.5?  The client has its own scsi disk
which contains local files and part of the swap area (which is another
issue).

I have discovered that you cannot swap local and have the root in an nd
partition.  If you do not have some swap space in an nd partition then at
boot time it cannot mount the root.  Is there a solution to this problem?