From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 15:18:27 2003 Return-Path: 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 AD51337B401 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yt.88.net (h-66-134-174-189.NYCMNY83.covad.net [66.134.174.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0905743FD7 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:18:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@zog.net) Received: by yt.88.net (Postfix, from userid 33) id E241D4E1; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:18:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 80.218.18.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user john) by yt.88.net with HTTP; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:18:25 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <51183.80.218.18.18.1059776305.squirrel@yt.88.net> In-Reply-To: References: <63472.80.218.18.18.1059758741.squirrel@yt.88.net> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:18:25 -0000 (GMT) From: "John Morgan Salomon" To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.4.0 RC1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Bootp Installing a Thinkpad? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: john@zog.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 22:18:28 -0000 Brilliant--many thanks. After some more poking around, I also found this (I'd missed it because I never heard of PXE before): http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml Cheers, -John > John, > > http://www.chuug.org/talks/index.html > > It's the first listing. > > Good Luck, > > Stephen > >> Hi there, >> >> I have just gotten my fingers on a Thinkpad 765D. The external floppy >> drive is busted, and the thing will not boot from CD-ROM. However, >> according to its bios settings, it should be able to netboot. >> >> Can someone point me in the right direction how to set up a bootp >> install server, analogous to Solaris jumpstart, for FreeBSD? I'd like >> to put 5.1-R on this thing, and I have a running 4.8-R server available. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >