> 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.
agree, I use it not only for this, I add rpc.lockd to it and use as diskless workstation, including kde, open office and more. Since writing time better options at this list where offerd. thanks, Marten > 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]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
