Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:38:20 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Feldman <protozoa@ghs.ssd.k12.wa.us> To: Paul Saab <ps@mu.org> Cc: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>, Rohit Rakshe <rakshe@cs.umn.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103181137340.69357-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010316141918.A46855@elvis.mu.org>
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For more docs, check out http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml . It clarifies a great deal. - dan feldman student, garfield high school, seattle On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Saab wrote: > Thierry Herbelot (thierry@herbelot.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One way to boot the kernel over the network is to use PXE (if your > > machine is recent enough to support it *well* : that is with a recent > > version of the PXE firmware) > > > > there is no real document on PXE booting > > you can read a note by Alfred Perlstein on > > <http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe.html>, the manpage for pxeboot, > > the code in rc.diskless{1,2}, the configuration of the boot server with > > dhcp and tftp/nfs (you may have to tweak /etc/fstab in order to mount a > > root partition which was not used to load /kernel ?) > > > > there is also somme documentation on Intel's web site > > > > I'm trying to use PXE, but it's not completly reliable (sometimes > > pxeboot just crashes) > > Upgrade the PXE rom > http://people.freebsd.org/~ps/pxeroms/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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