On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> >> I wouldn't use a sysinstall script. >> >> Set up a file system (say /nfsroot) on an NFS server in your lab. > > > Just in case anyone needs a real step-by-step guide to getting a diskless > PXE/NFS boot going, I wrote this up a little while ago. > > http://sigsegv.org/wiki/How_to_do_a_PXE_netboot_install_of_FreeBSD > > The existing documentation was either a bit out of date, glossed over some > of it or just flat out didn't work for me. Takes an existing running system, > clones it into /nfsroot, enables dhcpd/tftpd/nfsd, and relies on rc.diskless > to make the magic happen after boot.
That's a good brief guide, but a lot of the information is already contained in: <http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html>. That reminds me that I need to add some documentation for booting OpenFirmware Mac's with Netboot (some experiences that I had at Cisco that I wanted to pass down for others). -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
