Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there a way to net boot a brand new PC ( without O.S )
> > using the bootp/tftp scheme at FreeBSD 4.xx ?
> > as long as the network board is able to boot on LAN
>
> try one of the latest snapshots of etherboot (should be
> in the ports)
>
> cheers
> luigi
If the PC is really recent, it may also have a PXE extension to its
BIOS, which can be used to boot the PC. there is not much documentation
, but I gave a list :
> you can read a note by Alfred Perlstein on
> <http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe.html>, the manpage for pxeboot,
> the code in rc.diskless{1,2}, the configuration of the boot server with
> dhcp and tftp/nfs (you may have to tweak /etc/fstab in order to mount a
> root partition which was not used to load /kernel ?)
--
Thierry Herbelot
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