Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:22:32 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: Frank Bonnet <bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net boot ? Message-ID: <3AB7D828.9FEE73C2@herbelot.com> References: <200103200831.JAA95440@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Is there a way to net boot a brand new PC ( without O.S ) > > using the bootp/tftp scheme at FreeBSD 4.xx ? > > as long as the network board is able to boot on LAN > > try one of the latest snapshots of etherboot (should be > in the ports) > > cheers > luigi If the PC is really recent, it may also have a PXE extension to its BIOS, which can be used to boot the PC. there is not much documentation , but I gave a list : > you can read a note by Alfred Perlstein on > <http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe.html>, the manpage for pxeboot, > the code in rc.diskless{1,2}, the configuration of the boot server with > dhcp and tftp/nfs (you may have to tweak /etc/fstab in order to mount a > root partition which was not used to load /kernel ?) -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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