Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:40:17 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pxeboot to -Install- FreeBSD... Message-ID: <A35CBF31B8115259CE2A624C@unsupported>
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Hi All, I've been messing about with FreeBSD 6.1-Beta#4 recently, and I'm trying to get a server setup, so that I can pxeboot and install FreeBSD on some other servers... I've gotten dhcpd, tftp, pxeboot et'al to work - and, indeed the client machine dhcp's, pxeboots - and dumps itself into an 'Amnesic' FreeBSD system, with df showing: " Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted On 10.0.0.1:/export/pxe 26353244 4071180 20173806 17% / devfs 1 1 1 100% /dev /dev/md1 31470 134 28820 0% /var /dev/md2 19566 12 17990 0% /tmp " Obviously, this would be great if I wanted to run FreeBSD off of nfs/pxeboot - but not so good for installing it... On the off chance - I tried logging in, and firing up 'sysinstall' - which didn't do too well, probably obviously :) What do I need to do, to turn this 'booting FreeBSD from pxeboot' into something that will dump me into sysinstall, like booting from the CD rom? I've searched the net - but the only stuff I've found is either for much earlier FreeBSD versions, or incomplete - or both :) Thanks, -Karl
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