From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 22:42:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471D837BF0C for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e7B5gSL05802; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:42:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008110542.e7B5gSL05802@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Roger P. Johnson" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can diskless clients boot from a FreeBSD server like Solaris? In-Reply-To: <200008101516.KAA26938@fep.hirshfields.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:42:28 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:16:45 -0500 (CDT) "Roger P. Johnson" wrote: +------------------ | Hi, | | | Want to boot diskless PC's from a FreeBSD server. | | Can this be done? I've only seen in the Handbook that you need | Solaris/other for booting diskless PC's. | | Any RTFM's, pointers, others experiences on this? | | Can I turn a diskless PC into an X-terminal ?? | | Thanks, | Roger +------------------ I've done some experimentation with PicoBSD along these lines. Basicaly I've been thinking about using a boot floppy to get things going then take over at rc.diskless1. There is also a manual page for pxeboot(8) but I don't know anything about it. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message