net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges)

[Marian Hettwer]

Am 12.07.10 19:37, schrieb Mikhail T.:
> 12.07.2010 13:11, Adam Vande More wrote:
>> Roll it into your media
> You lost me right here... Rolling one's own media (for every release 
> and release-candidate) may be Ok for someone in charge of making, at 
> least, several installations per week.
>
> For someone like myself, who just wanted to use a downloaded CD-image 
> straight (without burning it first), there is got to be a way to use 
> the FreeBSD-distributed images... I'm not asking for the full power 
> offered by "kickstart" et al, I just want the booting image to be a 
> little bit smarter than it already is and do The Right Thing^TM 
> regardless of whether it is booting from the local CD-ROM or remotely.
>
hm, I second that.
While I fully understand that the iso images purpose is _not_ doing a 
netinstall, I'd like to have a downloadable image which is easy 
pxebootable and just drops into a shell. Ideally it does a dhcp request, 
if successful starts a sshd and if not has video and serial output enabled.

Did anybody actually stripped down a FreeBSD to do just that?
I read my way through the pxeboot articles and the handbook section of 
netbooting and everything... however, it really sounds a bit 
overcomplicated to do a "make release" and stuff. No offense ment, 
obviously :)

best,
Marian