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Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>,
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Subject: Re: About specific pxeboot support
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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.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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