Net Booting FreeBSD
Kaya Saman
kayasaman at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 23:56:05 UTC 2012
Hi,
I've been through the Handbook and Google however, it seems that there
isn't anywhere that has a guide to net boot FreeBSD on Sun SPARC systems.
I have a Sun Fire V210 and would like to install FreeBSD 9 onto it.
I'm using Fedora 17 32-bit as a boot server, and so far I have:
setup raprd, bootparamd, tftpd, and nfsd (simple Solaris/OpenBSD/Debian
(have recently installed them using this technique) boot setup)
Where I am stuck is the tftp and nfs setup.
Having recently jumpstarted OpenBSD I did a similar thing, I'm going to
bypass rarpd as I'm able to get an IP address so there's no issue there
(logs confirm):
I put the "loader" file into the /tftpboot directory and symlinked the
HEX of the IP address to it.
It seems however that this isn't the correct file and unfortunately I am
stuck as to where to find it?
As for the rest.... I have mounted the freebsd-9.0-current-disk1.iso
into a directory called /iso and exported this via NFS. The
configuration for /etc/bootparams is basically to use the /iso/ dir as
root for the install.
Could someone help me figuring out the file that should be placed in
/tftpboot??
Regards,
Kaya
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