From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 22 22:59:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3525F16A405 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:59:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from new2xen@gmail.com) Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com (hu-out-0506.google.com [72.14.214.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD54213C45A for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:59:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from new2xen@gmail.com) Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 28so930636hub.8 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:59:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=+D6Xs0sgHl/s5P7gwRhDeV3V32KzdgR9KivBrIXnWmY=; b=mNEvuPqhZMMvir0wEyABvzFePhjjO70N7Zu33BR0JeHPtwA7InSjqVadFG7Etp0+neqbwqYO70NpSoSt3Sl68Jx0fzxAQLTR6LyiBSNs4bVVpJnYsnj0UeCNxEyYsZTiQff7nj5GK75rLSK2yIdJXahmiZ42VDomf59g1FGzGCA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=L2e2xZSpRsrzGvKiW46uUA4Hpucj6rDxXuX4yeHek6ZQ/E49cwfqfMi1RGeYdp0HeXLKDL070rC2jQ8ljleaO7DAQuA3htIyjkiz0kKRcFV2T/Zdh5/cw+e26F2vlBbiTuJ0mZlA4QpBHMIInwKI3uqZFnjZ6NghbFd2QbKenNU= Received: by 10.150.155.1 with SMTP id c1mr199081ybe.155.1203720229060; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:43:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.57.15 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:43:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <13d67a800802221443w11fa3755wa0db0c09d07b4d48@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:43:49 -0800 From: "vincenzo romero" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: FreeBSD diskless workstation and over the network installation via PXE 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, 22 Feb 2008 22:59:53 -0000 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