From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 11 20:37:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3167106566B for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:37:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9B78FC08 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eco.config (93.97.24.219) by april.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4B79C26301110BEF; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:37:27 +0100 Message-ID: <4BC23306.1060808@onetel.com> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:37:26 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD PXE installation howto X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:37:29 -0000 Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the whole process and so on... finally I have ended looking at source code of some involved parts like sysintall, boot stages and so on.... for understanding all properly for setting up this service. I have written a documentation that if you see it to be ok... (it seems to be working fine) perhaps, would be nice to appear in handbook or in some official documentation site... So if you see something that should be done in another way... or some point wich you consider it's wrong... please make me know and I'll correct it. The url in wich you could fetch the pdf file is : http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/freebsdpxehowto.pdf > > Thank you very much. > > Bye!!_______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi egoitz s/wich/which/g What is this line? mkdir -p /usr/local/freebsd7/boot/defaults Should it be mkdir -p /expert/netboot/freebsd8/boot/defaults/ ? I think the line "Let's copy device.hints for booting the kernel loaded by loader in this pxe boot. Let's copy too some routine files for loader (and for forth shell) and a loader defaults config file." should be above the block of mkdir and cp commands above. The phrase "but really it's optional you may not specify -u" probably should say "but really it's optional, you don't have to specify -u". As written it means you are not allowed to :) Could you have used ftpd in the base system instead of tftp in inedt.conf? Chris