Hi, I am not sure if this is the correct list to post this to, and if it isn't please could you point me to where it should go.
I have recently turned to freeBSD and so far I love it. I have a small laptop that I use for playing around and general fiddling. I was using the Debian netinstall and booting over pxe/tftp when I wanted to reinstall. I started looking at the automated install, but it seemed very complex. I have been looking at the freeBSD option and it seems that the automated intall is very simple (at least from a user point of view). I have been trying to get pxeboot to work, so far with no luck. I have a dhcp/tftp server set up and I am able to push pxeboot across the network, so I assume that is all ok. NFS is also setup, at least I was getting nfs errors that I don't have anymore. I copied the contents of the 7.0 cd into the my tftpboot folder and changed the contents for loader.conf and loader.rc according to here http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/pxeboot.html and http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml and so far I am able to get a prompt come up but I am unable to get any further. As soon as I enter anything the computer immediately reboots so i am unable to see any error messages. I assume the paths are relative to the tftp server. Can anyone give me quick example to get me off to a start. Thanks David Collins Here are my config files, I think that is all of them # cat /etc/exports /usr/tftpboot/freeBSD7.0 -alldirs -ro -maproot=root # cat /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 7200; authoritative; ddns-update-style none; subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.2.8 192.168.2.15; #filename "/pxelinux.0"; filename "/freeBSD7.0/boot/pxeboot"; next-server 192.168.2.4; option routers 192.168.2.4; option root-path "/usr2/tftpboot/freeBSD7.0"; } # grep tftp /etc/inetd.conf tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd -l -s /usr/tftpboot #cat /usr/tftpboot/freeBSD7.0/boot/loader.rc echo Loading Kernel... set choice=freebsd-ide read -t 5 -p "Type in your selection EXACTLY: " choice include /boot/loader.rc-$choice read -t 5 -p "Type in your selection EXACTLY: " choice read -t 5 -p "Type in your selection EXACTLY: " choice load /boot/kernel/kernel load linux.ko echo \007\007 set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c" #cat /usr/tftpboot/freeBSD7.0/boot/loader.conf init_path="/stand/sysinstall" rootfs_load="YES" rootfs_name="/boot/mfsroot" rootfs_type="mfs_root" vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" autoboot_delay=5 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
