From owner-freebsd-config Mon Oct 21 1:32:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B3737B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sibptus.tomsk.ru (sibptus.tomsk.ru [213.59.238.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDA543E42 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:32:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g9L8TOM46343 for freebsd-config@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:29:24 +0700 (OMSST) (envelope-from sudakov) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:29:24 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: network boot and install servers Message-ID: <20021021152924.A45781@sibptus.tomsk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://vas.tomsk.ru/vas.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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