From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 16 11:55:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19CC37B402 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id B7D9910DE00; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:55:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:55:14 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: robert.thoelen@ieee.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Almost diskless workstation Message-ID: <20020116115514.G26067@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020116192926.48186.qmail@web21204.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020116192926.48186.qmail@web21204.mail.yahoo.com>; from shmget1@yahoo.com on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:29:25AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Robert Thoelen III [020116 11:29] wrote: > Sorry about the previous empty post. I am trying > create a filesystem on a server running FreeBSD at > work. I would like to create a floppy that would > mount the filesystem by NFS. This way, on any given > machine at work, I could put the floppy in and turn it > into a BSD workstation, without manipulating the hard > disk. > > I was looking at netboot and etherboot, but I am > confused. I don't want to make a rom image for a > network card. The machines that I would put the > floppy into are on the same network as the server, but > the DHCP is administered by another group. If I just > need to DHCP an address, but I know the address of the > server running NFS, is my best bet to create a custom > floppy with a kernel image on it and have the init > scripts NFS mount the filesystem and continue? http://www.rom-o-matic.com/ http://www.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe :-) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message