From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 10:39:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC0716A420 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:39:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [62.13.130.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242BB43D49 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:39:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from unsupported (thebrick.dmpriest.net.uk [62.13.130.30]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6/Kp) with ESMTP id k37Ad1ER057835 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:39:01 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:40:17 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.4 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: pxeboot to -Install- FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:39:03 -0000 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