FreeBSD PXE installation howto

[Chris Whitehouse]

Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote:
> 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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Hi egoitz

s/wich/which/g

What is this line?
mkdir -p /usr/local/freebsd7/boot/defaults

Should it be
mkdir -p /expert/netboot/freebsd8/boot/defaults/
?

I think the line "Let's copy device.hints for booting the kernel loaded 
by loader in this pxe boot. Let's copy too
some routine files for loader (and for forth shell) and a loader 
defaults config file." should be above the block of mkdir and cp 
commands above.

The phrase "but really it's optional you may not specify -u" probably 
should say "but really it's optional, you don't have to specify -u". As 
written it means you are not allowed to :)

Could you have used ftpd in the base system instead of tftp in inedt.conf?

Chris