Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:43:49 -0800 From: "vincenzo romero" <new2xen@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD diskless workstation and over the network installation via PXE Message-ID: <13d67a800802221443w11fa3755wa0db0c09d07b4d48@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, Am new to FreeBSD and relatively new to linux; I have a CentOS 5.1 PXE/tftpd/dhcpd server; I'd like it to be the build/PXE server where a bunch of 1U clients could PXE boot and run: 1. diskless over NFS-Root In googling, seems like there is a clone script that preps and lets you generate a root file system structure and let your clients boot off the network. I checked the Free BSD Handbook (Chapter 29) where extensive documentation on setup is outlined, but it assumes that the PXE/TFTP/NFS/DHCPd servers are FreeBSD; mine is a CentOS; just want to support diskless PXE boot for my clients. Section 29.7.2.9.2 9Usning a Non-FreeBSD server - just indicates that do a tar/cpio of root; but ensure that special files in /dev are taken care of ... my question - - does anyone have this type of scenario setup? if so, can you please share with me your insights/cheat-sheet-how to? - i'd be interested in understanding the setup of how you handled copying the /dev files into your exported ROOT directorty ... Are there any other recommendations ? thanks in advance! -- best, Vince
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