On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Marten Vijn wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 03:36 +0100, Karel Miklav wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 to a sub-notebook without > > floppy or optical unit. > > > Please give me a hand, I'm playing with this for whole week. > > > nice game aint it? sure of your friends is tcpdump :) > > > steps to follow (more below), create: > > 1 pxeboot > 2 exports a nfs bootdir > 3 populate bootdir > 4 config dhcpd.conf > 5 add hosts to dns or /etc/hosts > 6 proper config for the bootdir
[...] If the goal is to simply start sysinstall on the target then it is not necessary to construct a fully-populated root filesystem for the purpose. Just tell loader to use the mfsroot disk image that's in the boot/ directory and sysinstall will start up like it does when booting directly from CD. Instructions for this are at: http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/pxeboot.html Its fundamentally the same, except step 3 takes about 1 minute (cp -Rp) instead of an hour. Admittedly these instructions assume proficiency with configuring NFS, DHCP, and so forth. Its mainly a note to myself on how to do it. :) The addition of vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" line to loader.conf is the key. The CDROM loader.rc already pulls in mfsroot.gz, you just have to point the kernel at that image instead of the NFS root that pxeboot will pass on. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
