Tools for FreeBSD development

[Garrett Cooper]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-12-02 20:05, Kevin Sanders <newroswell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/2/06, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I personally think that having a dedicated box in disk-less
>>> configuration is the best option out there. [...]
>> Alexander, when you say disk-less configuration, are you
>> referring to booting from a network image/server?  That's an
>> interesting idea.  I'm fairly new to FreeBSD development also,
>> and prefer the speed of a dedicated box, but recently suffered
>> my first corrupted beyond repair system.
> 
> Yes, a "diskless" boot is a network-based boot :-)

Look into BOOTP for that: 
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html>. 
You may want to just use vmware (best reliable solution, IMO but it 
costs money), depending on what resources you have on hand and what 
you're trying to accomplish.
-Garrett