FreeBSD PXE installation howto

egoitz at ramattack.net egoitz at ramattack.net
Fri Apr 16 09:23:35 UTC 2010


Hi all,

I have seen a way for reducing some steps...

after installing dhcpd and active tftpd in inetd.conf and starting
inetd... have just done :

tar -C /expert/netboot/freebsd8 -pxvf 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso

(really it's an own release based on release plus security patches
RELENG_8_0 but for the example is the same...)

and after just entering the install.cfg in the mfsroot and after changing
in nfs-root-path/boot/loader.conf for having the line :

vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0"

it works the same way too...


Are the freebsd iso releases (either of the web or those made by make
release) shipped with all necessary for all boot modes (pxe, cd, hd...)..
without needing to do nothing for, for example making a freebsd
installation server?..

Thanks a lot for you're time.

Bye!!


> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with
> pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started
> looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the
> whole process and so on... finally I have ended looking at source code of
> some involved parts like sysintall, boot stages and so on.... for
> understanding all properly for setting up this service. I have written a
> documentation that if you see it to be ok... (it seems to be working fine)
> perhaps, would be nice to appear in handbook or in some official
> documentation site... So if you see something that should be done in
> another way... or some point wich you consider it's wrong... please make
> me know and I'll correct it. The url in wich you could fetch the pdf file
> is : http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/freebsdpxehowto.pdf
>
> Thank you very much.
>
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