Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:04:30 -0700 From: "Chuck TheMascot" <freebsdfan@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: soren@soekris.com Subject: Re: net4501 easy install.... Message-ID: <F75i1Y7PeGbPn6U9Bek00003173@hotmail.com>
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I'm working on some of those ideas, but haven't made much progress yet. I made the mistake of cvsup's in the middle of the commit rush for the 4.4 freeze so my current snapshot doesn't build. I'm going to wait a few days for the chips to settle before diging in again. I've registered a project called "theWall" at sourceforge.net where I intend to make my configuration and binaries available to people that are interested in a turnkey or at least prebuilt PicoBSD firewall. My goal is a pxe bootable image that'll run standalone without compact flash plus another one that'll install itself on compact flash. I already have a Windoze bootp/tftp loader that I've been using with my existing PicoBSD firewall on my old 486 boat anchor that I'll probably modify for pxe once I understand the differences. Currently it's happy to serve up the old firewall's kernel to the net4501, but of course it's completely wrong for pxe so it doesn't do anything useful yet. If anyone has any PicoBSD configuration trees that they'd like to share let me know and I'll make you a developer on the "theWall" project. >Hi, > >Now that I'm starting starting to ship your net4501's, I was wondering >if somebody could do an easy installation procedure using PXE boot, I >don't really have enough experience with FreeBSd myself, and are short >of time anyway, busy doing the hardware :-) > >I was thinking something about a procedure where you could install >different sizes of FreeBSD using any platform as host, even a windoze >machine: > >Step 1) Setup a dhcp and tftp server, using just one directory (so even >the crapiest free dhcp and tftp server on a windoze machine would do it) > >Step 2) Download and decompress a .zip or .gz file with the PXE loader >and FreeBSD installer into that directory. > >Step 3) Optional, download the .gz distributions, basically just >tarballs with the files, into the directory. > >Step 4) Boot PXE, starting a modified (simplified....) FreeBSD >installer. > >Step 5) Using that installer, create partitions and filesystem on the >CF, then install the distribution using either tftp, ftp, nfs, or (if >possible) cifs. > >I was then thinking about having a couple of different tarballs so you >could use CF cards from 8 Mbyte and up. As 256 Mbyte cards are down to >$134 (according to pricewatch), you could even make something like a >firewall / gateway /email / web server.... > >Any takers ? Better ideas are also welcome :-) > > >Regards, > > >Soren > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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