Install FreeBSD using Windows desktop and PXE

[John Kotrla]

On 10/24/11 04:29, Eir Nym wrote:
> -- Eir Nym
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> On 24 October 2011 13:23, Eir Nym<eirnym at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On 24 Oct 2011, at 11:10, Matthew Seaman<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>  wrote:
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>>> On 24/10/2011 02:18, Eir Nym wrote:
>>>> I want to install FreeBSD to my second box and I have only Windows 7
>>>> x64 desktop without CD drives.
>>>> 1. I have access to remote FreeBSD server (via SSH) where I can make
>>>> custom FreeBSD installation in any format.
>>>> 2. I know how to create TFTP/DHCPD/PXE server to boot loader and kernel.
>>>>
>>>> So questions are:
>>>> 1) Do I able to boot some minimal FreeBSD environment without NFS aka
>>>> embedded BSD to install fully functional environment? What things
>>>> should I do to boot up it?
>>>> How can I use Crunch/MFS_ROOT ??
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>>> You should be able to PXE boot FreeBSD and then mount a copy of one of
>>> the install DVDs by NFS from where you can run the system installer.
>>> That is, you mount the root filesystem via NFS while you're running the
>>> installer.
>>>
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>> There's simple tftp server for Windows with dhcpd features. But NFS server becomes available only in Windows 2008 platform.
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>>> In principle this should be enough for you to install FreeBSD locally on
>>> your second machine.  This is quite unusual stuff, and probably not as
>>> well tested as more orthodox installation mechanisms.
>>>
>>> It might be simpler if you can install from a USB memory stick image.
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>> I'm looking for USB image
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> I'm looking for USB image writer which works in Windows 7 to write raw
> image to USB drive

https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer

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>>>> 2) How can I write it to Flash drive in Windows 7?
>>>> dd/flashnul/rawrite/rawcopy/etc are not working under this OS: it
>>>> blocks access to drives even administrative rights.
>>>
>>> If you can boot the install media, then you aren't running Windows 7 any
>>> more, and the restrictions imposed by that OS simply don't apply.
>>>
>>>     Cheers,
>>>
>>>     Matthew
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