netboot vs. PXE (Was: )

Brian McGovern (bmcgover) bmcgover at cisco.com
Thu May 28 20:37:38 UTC 2015


Is it a fairly recent Sun box that supports DHCP? If so, you should be able to get it up on the network, tftp the kernel, then mount an NFS filesystem to do the install.

  -B
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From: owner-freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org] on behalf of Torfinn Ingolfsen [torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 4:09 PM
To: freebsd-sparc64 at FreeBSD.org
Subject: netboot vs. PXE (Was: )

On Thu, 28 May 2015 01:27:47 -0700
Daniel Rudy <dr2867 at pacbell.net> wrote:

>
> I've been using FreeBSD extensively since 3.2 on i386 hardware.  However, this is my first foray into a different platform.  I'm finding out that I need to do a PXE boot of the machine to install FreeBSD,
> but the sparc install DVD doesn't have the pxeboot program.  This machine does not have a CD/DVD drive or even USB ports.  So how do I install FreeBSD onto this machine?
> I was following the procedure here: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Installing_FreeBSD_with_netboot

FWIW, netboot and PXE boot are different implementations of the same idea.
Real server class hardware (in general Unix as an operating system and not Intel architecure) has had netboot for ages now.
Gernerally, you don't need pxeboot on this type of machine.
HTH
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Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>
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