Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:36:06 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: FTP insall booting from disc not floppies Message-ID: <E1DNWQ2-0007Po-HG@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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I want to do a clean (i.e. wipe the disc) install of FreeBSD 5.4 onto a set of remote machines. I have access to the consoles of these machines, but no access to the media (CD or Floppy). When you isnall from floppies they bopot a bare minimum system on a memory disc which then does an FTP install as I understand it ? So, what I am wondering is if I could put whatever the floppies boot onto a filesystem, so that when the machine reboots it will do a floppy-type install, except booting from the hard drive rather than an actual floppy. Does this sound plausible ? If so then how would I set about creating such a filesystem locally (I can then dd it onto the bot partition of the remote machine). All advice apperciated as I do not know much about the install process. -pcf.
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