Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:42:07 -0600 (CST) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: diskless installation for freebsd 3.3 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911261740150.2282-101000@Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --0-604663509-943439481=:35635 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911261740152.2282@Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx> O! great and wise FreeBSD gurus, please, read what I have to say... I successfully installed a complete and functional diskless system. using FreeBSD 3.3. I found that the documentation is a little out of date and only works for old FreeBSD versions. Nevertheless, I wrote a log of what I did. Some of the things I did were mere brute force, but they worked. Now, I have some doubts... 1. I think I do not know how to mount the swap file. It seems to me that the kernel did it... but I do not know, "mount" does not report it as mounted when my client begins to work. 2. I had to use "rarpd" to be make my server "listen" to my client bootp request. This daemon is not documented in the articles about "diskless" in "/usr/share/doc/en/articles". 3. "rc.diskless" make a *lot* of rare things and I had to remove this file in my client's root file system to make my system work. Where may I find documenteation about these scripts? 4. I do knot know how to encrypt a password in the client's root file system before it starts for the first time. I guess "vipw -d ." can do it, but I need to have the encrypted password. I can copy the root's password from the "server" system... I think this is too complicated for a novice administrator. I have to set the root's password when the diskless system boots for the first time. 5. Using the "boot diskette" process, the kernel image in the diskless system has to be "AOUT". It cannot be "ELF" because the booting program in "/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot" asks it so. I have not tried to do it with a network card with the booting ROM. 6. How can I create the "aliases" data base in the client's space? I mean, I'm using the FreeBSD bin distribution and I would like to prepare it completely. I cannot send the aliases database to the client's area. I have to create it until my system starts for the first time. Do you want to read my log? It is gzip-ed and attached to this mail. All your comments, corrections, suggestions, are welcome. I can also send you a Spanish version... 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