Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:42:13 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: PXE Booting? Message-ID: <20000518204128.UWXD22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20000518153720.A821@cs.mcgill.ca>
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On 18-May-00 Mathew Kanner wrote: > Hi All, > I've been charged with looking at diskless booting with > FreeBSD. I've got two Intel Pro100 cards that seem to support PXE > booting. From what I gather, it isn't as easy as I hoped. > > From the Intel documentation and from > http://www2.im.uec.ac.jp/~fukuhara/pxe/pxe-freebsd.txt I've gathered > that it fetches a file before it gets the kernel. With the Intel SDK, > this file looks for a PXE server and offers a menu to choose but I > suspect that their implmentation is linux only. From the web page > above, it seems that I need to build a special binary that grabs > etherboot. > Is there an easier way? Has anyone done this before? It is done and committed to both RELENG_4 and -current. If you install a machine with a recent 4.x snap from releng4.FreeBSD.org you can read the pxeboot(8) manpage for more info on setting it up. This will also be in release 4.1 scheduled to be released in a couple of months. > Thanks, > --Mat -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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