If your don't have pxe on your motherboard try the Etherboot. www.etherboot.org
greets On 8/25/05, Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 05:54 PM 8/24/2005, Sarath Kamisetty wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have two PCs, one with linux installed and another one is a old PC. > >I would like use my linux pc to make modifications to freebsd code > >base and then test it on my old PC. After compiling freebsd image on > >my linux pc, how do I boot this image on my old PC ? Is there a cost > >effective way of doing this without using floppies or CDs which is > >time consuming ? Can I run some special image on my old PC to let it > >fetch the newly compiled image everytime ?? Does anyone have this kind > >of setup ? Can I setup a console server for cheap and acheive this ? > >Please share your thoughts on this. > > If you have an intel NIC which supports PXE, you can boot the machine > from a kernel that's on another machine and shared by NFS or > tftp. Take a look at the man page for pxeboot(8), as well as the > development(7) man page for some good info. > > -Glenn > > > >Thanks, > >Sarath > >_______________________________________________ > >[email protected] mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
