Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:08:19 +0100 From: Sacha Varma <sacha@ssl.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bootstrapping CD-ROM install from network? Message-ID: <3DA55193.5030304@ssl.co.uk>
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Dear all, I'm in the rather peculiar situation of being unable to boot from floppy or CD-ROM on my i386 PC. However, I can netboot (via PXE software on my NIC). What I would like to do is boot into an installer over the network, but install the FreeBSD files from CD-ROM. I've set up DHCP and TFTP on a PowerPC server and have successfully booted the i386 client into PXElinux - so I know in theory I could bootstrap the installation by serving the right boot image via TFTP. I have no i386 compilation facilities. How can I do this? Keywords: boot, netboot, diskless, pxe, install, bsd, freebsd, dhcp, bootp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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