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To: Jean-Christophe Varaillon <jcv@vbc.net>
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Subject: Re: Diskless FreeBSD Box
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If your machine is reasonably reecent, its BIOS has PXE, which can be
used for diskless booting.

there is no real tutorial on diskless booting, but alfred perlstein (
bright@sneakerz.org ) wrote an intersting paper on
<http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/> which is a good base for
diskless booting.

you will also find rc.diskless[12] a good reading

	TfH

PS : there is also man diskless, but it is not up to date
PS2 : the -net archive has a thread on the subject :
<http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=98317+100355+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-net/20010211.freebsd-net>

Jean-Christophe Varaillon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to build a machine where FreeBSD will be the OS of my router,
> Zebra.
> 
> This 2U box has to be without hard disk. I will use a "hard drive" built
> from flash.
> 
> Could you, please, tell me what kind of card I have to find to do this ?
> 
> Thanks,
> JC.
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