On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Jeremy Chadwick
wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:43:30PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>> >Footnote: This is why I tell folks to zero out the first 8192 bytes of
>> >any disk they've previously installed FreeBSD on (even if the disk has
>> >no filesystems/slic
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:43:30PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >Footnote: This is why I tell folks to zero out the first 8192 bytes of
> >any disk they've previously installed FreeBSD on (even if the disk has
> >no filesystems/slices on it). The way FreeBSD determines the size of
> >the disk
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Is this documented somewhere?
>
Here:
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html
Whoever wrote that, thank you.
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Howdy,
I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network. I've got
my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three
services from this host before attemptin
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:28:03PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Howdy,
I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network.
I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested
all three services from this host before a
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network. I've got
> my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three
> services from this host before attempting to boot over the network.
>
> pxeboo
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:11:36PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> The NFS root mount you see happening later is a result of the root
> filesystem not being available. This is normal if mfsroot fails.
A follow-up to my own post:
The above paragraph is incorrect. The NFS root mount is proper,
ex
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:28:03PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network.
> I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested
> all three services from this host before attempting to boot over the
> network.
Howdy,
I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network. I've
got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three
services from this host before attempting to boot over the network.
pxeboot seems to work, and I see it get loaded via tftp. The kernel
boo
