Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:53:54 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Sarath Kamisetty <sarath.kamisetty@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD over network or serial links? Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050824224729.0642f650@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <641e6aa9050824175462de4b7d@mail.gmail.com> References: <641e6aa9050824175462de4b7d@mail.gmail.com>
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At 05:54 PM 8/24/2005, Sarath Kamisetty wrote: >Hi, > >I have two PCs, one with linux installed and another one is a old PC. >I would like use my linux pc to make modifications to freebsd code >base and then test it on my old PC. After compiling freebsd image on >my linux pc, how do I boot this image on my old PC ? Is there a cost >effective way of doing this without using floppies or CDs which is >time consuming ? Can I run some special image on my old PC to let it >fetch the newly compiled image everytime ?? Does anyone have this kind >of setup ? Can I setup a console server for cheap and acheive this ? >Please share your thoughts on this. If you have an intel NIC which supports PXE, you can boot the machine from a kernel that's on another machine and shared by NFS or tftp. Take a look at the man page for pxeboot(8), as well as the development(7) man page for some good info. -Glenn >Thanks, >Sarath >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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