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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