Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:58:24 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About specific pxeboot support Message-ID: <200506171358.25796.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200505040037.09315.josemi@redesjm.local> References: <200505032126.34797.josemi@redesjm.local> <20050503222632.GA17595@stack.nl> <200505040037.09315.josemi@redesjm.local>
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On Tuesday 03 May 2005 06:37 pm, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > El Mi=E9rcoles, 4 de Mayo de 2005 00:26, Marc Olzheim escribi=F3: > > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:26:34PM +0200, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > > > Now, remembering a thread in -stable, and make a whish for the > > > forthcomming FreeBSD-6. > > > > > > I think that the actual release build may be easy tweak to produce > > > a populated /tftpboot directory ready for pxe tftp installs. (a > > > tftp enabled pxeboot, a mfs rootfs based con boot_crunch ...). > > > > > > If this can be put in a tarball like tftpinstall.tar.gz in the ftp > > > area, test of snapshots, betas, RCs, and so on will be done via > > > bootp/tftp boots. > > > > Erhm... All you need is to mount the iso on your tftproot dir and > > boot from it with console=3Dcomconsole... > > And download the full CD and cope with some glitchs. Loock for the > thread on -stable. > > Right now, we do floppies, a FTP distribution and some isos. > > I only pointing that make release may be tweak to produce a some megs > tarball that you can expand on tftpboot. > > If we have the boot_crunch done and the root mfs, this additional target > can't be too complex. > > And it's easy to test that 'go floppies'. You can just use the contents of the bootonly ISO which is much smaller tha= n=20 the full CD. =2D-=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =3D http://www.FreeBSD.org
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