Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:29:24 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: network boot and install servers Message-ID: <20021021152924.A45781@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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Dear Colleagues, Today I have successfully installed FreeBSD over network without floppies or CDROM, just like in Solaris network installation. Here are my steps for creating an install server: 1. enabled tftpd, copied /boot/pxeboot to /tftpboot 2. mounted boot.flp via vn(4), copied its contents to /pxeroot, shared /pxeroot over NFS. 3. enabled dhcp server, configured the options bootfile and next-server (this was a Cisco dhcp server, but should work with isc-dhcpd as well). 4. Booted from a box with a pxe enabled NIC and voila! Here is my sysinstall. If anyone is interested I could try and document the setup of a networked install server in a form suitable for the Handbook. This could be yet another regular way of installing FreeBSD, along with booting from CDROM or the floppies. After all I think it is a very respectable thing for an OS to be installed like this :) -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message
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