From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 08:19:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8604116A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:19:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay-3v.club-internet.fr (relay-3v.club-internet.fr [194.158.96.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBEE43D1D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:19:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dockes@wanadoo.fr) Received: from hautmedoc.dockes.com (f02m-7-137.d1.club-internet.fr [212.194.18.137]) by relay-3v.club-internet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15F63CD0 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:19:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from hautmedoc.dockes.com (localhost.dockes.com [127.0.0.1]) by hautmedoc.dockes.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i1CGJKTO004705 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:19:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dockes@hautmedoc.dockes.com) Received: (from dockes@localhost) by hautmedoc.dockes.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i1CGJKQn004702; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:19:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dockes) From: Jean-Francois Dockes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16427.42887.937002.129489@hautmedoc.dockes.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:19:19 +0100 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid Subject: Updated 'diskless operation' section for the handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:19:22 -0000 I have updated my update of the 'diskless operation' section. I have included information specific to FreeBSD 5.x, and more details about using PXE. Some of the information is supposedly more accurate because I have taken more time to investigate how some of the mechanisms actually work. On a related note, I think that PR docs/62412 should be closed as it is mostly wrong AFAIK. I have tested every method described in the section, both with release 4.9 and 5.2, and everything works as advertised (at least on my test machines which have fairly common hardware, both quite old and quite new). There were a few glitches in the previous version of the section, but no real show-stopper either. I'd be very glad to welcome your corrections, and hope that the new version can be included in the handbook. Links to the data: HTML: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dockes/diskless/network-diskless.html Whole chapter source: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dockes/diskless/chapter.sgml diff: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dockes/diskless/diffs.txt diff -w http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dockes/diskless/wdiffs.txt diff -C: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dockes/diskless/wdiffs.txt (if more formats needed, just ask) Regards, Jean-Francois Dockes