PXE Installation

[Marten Vijn]

> 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
> dwhite at gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
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