From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 07:22:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7979516A4BF; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 07:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (ol.freeshell.org [192.94.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF8D43F93; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 07:22:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from omestre@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:omestre@sdf.lonestar.org [192.94.73.1]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h89EM9XZ029302; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:22:10 GMT Received: (from omestre@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h89EM9Gq005295; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:22:09 GMT Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:22:09 +0000 (UTC) From: omestre X-X-Sender: omestre@sdf.lonestar.org To: Josef Karthauser In-Reply-To: <20030902205418.GB30374@genius.tao.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20030902205418.GB30374@genius.tao.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a machine over the network without pxe. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:22:15 -0000 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote: Here is How i have made this task: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54383 I guess that is exactly what you want. I have posted a PR, and maybe the FreeBSD devel team "think about it". :) []'s Leal > Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:54:18 +0100 > From: Josef Karthauser > To: hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Booting a machine over the network without pxe. > > Does anyone have any experience of booting a machine over the > network, like pxeboot, but without running PXE on a network card. > I imagine that it should be possible to load pxeboot at the boot: > prompt and have everything just work. > > I could really do with booting my laptop into -stable, where it's only > got -current installed. I do however have a -stable server on site with > plenty of disk space. It would be really cool to remote boot of that > via NFS mounts, etc. > > Joe > -- > Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ > FreeBSD (cvs meisterk admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ > Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ > ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. ================= > omestre@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org