On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:06 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:50:43PM -0500, Ed Maste wrote: > > > iv. Knowledge of how TFTP and DHCP work, and how to debug them if > > > they break, > > > v. Intricate knowledge of configuring a DHCP server (common > > > question: "what's the 'next-server' and 'option root-path' > > > stuff? Is it needed? Why?") > > > > I admit that I haven't tried installing Linux or Solaris via PXE, but I > > find it interesting that such knowledge wouldn't be required for them. > > It's much more "solid" in the sense that with Linux, you simply tell the > boot loader (GRUB or whatever else) to pass the kernel an argument that > says "use this serial port speed, no VGA console, and output everything > to this serial port". That's *it*. > > I'd have to dig a little deeper on Solaris i386 (I'm pretty sure it's a > boot loader option, similar to -S115200 in /boot.config on FreeBSD), but > on Sparc I believe OpenBoot takes care of this pain for you.
At least on my V100 (which is admittedly old machine) it does so by mandating 9600,n,8 -- no choice, no pain ;) -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко) _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
