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Date:      21 May 2006 11:03:41 +0200
From:      Andreas Hauser <andy-freebsd@splashground.de>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        performance@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org>
Subject:   Re: (Another) simple benchmark
Message-ID:  <20060521090341.25582.qmail@shadow.splashground.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060520182238.R8068@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <446DE927.2060909@fer.hr> <20060520182238.R8068@fledge.watson.org>

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rwatson wrote @ Sat, 20 May 2006 18:25:14 +0100 (BST):

> I'm set up to easily benchmark FreeBSD in our netperf cluster, but I'm not set 
> up to easily do comparisons with Linux, since we don't have a pluggable 
> netboot Linux to install in that environment.  If someone wants to provide 
> some pointers doing that, I'm happy to explore doing it, but ideally it would 
> be something like "tftp export file <a> and NFS tree <b>, boot".  This is the 
> model we use for FreeBSD in the netperf cluster, and it works very well :-).

This should get you started with booting linux via PXE:
http://www.splashground.de/~andy/linux/tftpboot.tar.gz
Unpack as the root of you tftp server and add to your
dhcp.conf: "filename /pxelinux.0".
Edit tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg accordingly.

-- 
Andy



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