Bootp Installing a Thinkpad?

John Morgan Salomon john at zog.net
Fri Aug 1 15:18:28 PDT 2003


Brilliant--many thanks.

After some more poking around, I also found this (I'd missed it because I
never heard of PXE before):

http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml

Cheers,

-John


> John,
>
> http://www.chuug.org/talks/index.html
>
> It's the first listing.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Stephen
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have just gotten my fingers on a Thinkpad 765D.  The external floppy
>> drive is busted, and the thing will not boot from CD-ROM.  However,
>> according to its bios settings, it should be able to netboot.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction how to set up a bootp
>> install server, analogous to Solaris jumpstart, for FreeBSD?  I'd like
>> to put 5.1-R on this thing, and I have a running 4.8-R server available.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -John
>>
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