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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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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I found that the documentation is a little out of date and only works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... (in a short time).


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  | |          http://michelle.esfm.ipn.mx/~mrspock
               eduardo.viruena@esfm.ipn.mx

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