From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 18:25:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C6E1065670 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:25:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from crivens.kernel32.de (crivens.asm68k.org [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6029D8FC19 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from MotorBookMKII.local (91-64-52-77-dynip.superkabel.de [91.64.52.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by crivens.kernel32.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 421C7B03F1; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:25:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C3B5DFF.7050900@kernel32.de> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:25:03 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mikhail T." References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34CA31.7010804@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34E39A.7090905@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708135353.GA43460@icarus.home.lan> <4C35E9D4.8080007@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708164022.GA46433@icarus.home.lan> <4C3618B9.8010202@aldan.algebra.com> <4C3B52D9.9060602@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <4C3B52D9.9060602@aldan.algebra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adam Vande More , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:25:05 -0000 Am 12.07.10 19:37, schrieb Mikhail T.: > 12.07.2010 13:11, Adam Vande More wrote: >> Roll it into your media > You lost me right here... Rolling one's own media (for every release > and release-candidate) may be Ok for someone in charge of making, at > least, several installations per week. > > For someone like myself, who just wanted to use a downloaded CD-image > straight (without burning it first), there is got to be a way to use > the FreeBSD-distributed images... I'm not asking for the full power > offered by "kickstart" et al, I just want the booting image to be a > little bit smarter than it already is and do The Right Thing^TM > regardless of whether it is booting from the local CD-ROM or remotely. > hm, I second that. While I fully understand that the iso images purpose is _not_ doing a netinstall, I'd like to have a downloadable image which is easy pxebootable and just drops into a shell. Ideally it does a dhcp request, if successful starts a sshd and if not has video and serial output enabled. Did anybody actually stripped down a FreeBSD to do just that? I read my way through the pxeboot articles and the handbook section of netbooting and everything... however, it really sounds a bit overcomplicated to do a "make release" and stuff. No offense ment, obviously :) best, Marian