From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 21 22:45:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8720016A402 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:45:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from farremosen@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4845E13C471 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:45:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from farremosen@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 69so2780116wra for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:45:11 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=FEmNbA+2H4fjYD1Xzw+PzvufosjCQcPXrk0Soj4VIeb7Tzgbu/Osj/JTS2OlFUJlZWV+oCe2Mjj8inWZGG1u2B9dhuMR+OjayYtXzbPyxRMjE9oZg9seT3WPGDFZGBSgaPVdrID9lA47dKHiY4IwzTgOYnDBvRHk1EZkFe/UqYg= Received: by 10.114.126.1 with SMTP id y1mr120593wac.1172097910567; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:45:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.121.13 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:45:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:45:10 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Klaus_Friis_=D8stergaard?=" To: "Erik Norgaard" In-Reply-To: <45D0D075.7030402@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <45D0D075.7030402@locolomo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making thin client server 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: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:45:12 -0000 Hi Erik, 2007/2/12, Erik Norgaard : > > Klaus Friis =D8stergaard wrote: > > > I have a EPATech eTC thin client it is build on a Vortex86 processor. I > > tried with a 6.1 relase in order PXE boot the thin client and it fails. > > > > Is it possible to build an older relase like 5.3 on a 6.1 relase and us= e > it > > for the thin clients, to boot from? > > Yes, it is possible. Check out the desired version with cvs, then build > world and kernel, finally, install with DESTDIR=3D/dir/of/choice > > Details here: http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/diskless.html Tried to follow your description, but I seem to have lost some thing, the client now starts the PXEBOOT process and it looks in the (/var/diskless/FreeBSD/)/boot/defaults/loader.conf that says (/var/diskless/FreeBSD/)/boot/kernel But according to your instruction http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/pxeboot.html the kernel was installed i= n the /var/tftp/boot/ Should I simply make DISTDIR=3D/var/diskless/FreeBSD installkernel instead? Regards, Klaus --=20 Klaus F. =D8stergaard,