From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 18 7:12:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.mail.uk.psi.net (relay1.mail.uk.psi.net [154.32.105.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3772414D19 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 07:11:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amobbs@allstor-sw.co.uk) Received: from mail.plasmon.co.uk ([193.115.5.217]) by relay1.mail.uk.psi.net with smtp (Exim 2.02 #3) id 10jkWw-0001Ce-00; Tue, 18 May 1999 15:07:38 +0100 Received: by mail.plasmon.co.uk(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.2 (693.3 8-11-1998)) id 80256775.004D53E6 ; Tue, 18 May 1999 15:04:37 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: PLASNOTES From: amobbs@allstor-sw.co.uk To: Sebastien Maraux Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <80256775.004D5380.00@mail.plasmon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:04:35 +0100 Subject: Re: netbooting a freebsd kernel with 3c905B (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I'm currently doing a FreeBSD installation from network, a bit like >jumpstart. >So,I need to find a freeware to netboot a freebsd kernel with 3c905B >Ken Yap from the etherboot site, told me about a special etherboot that >freebsd people had done to make etherboot boot freebsd kernel. >A complete RFC 1048 support would be great, because it could allow me to >secure the installation by mfs mounting the R/W partitions and NFS export >the Read only ones. >Every piece of information interest me >can someone help me?? Doug Ambrisko came up with some patches, you can find an early version attached to PR 9480, there may be more recent versions around now. I've got it working with an MFS kernel, if you need other help feel free to mail me. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message