From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 29 19:09:14 2008 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 F3CFE16A420 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:09:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4ED313C455 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:09:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CF4EA1CC033; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:09:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:09:13 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080129190913.GA6104@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Documentation: Installing FreeBSD 7.0 via serial console and PXE 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: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:09:14 -0000 I spent 7-8 hours yesterday working on accomplishing ${SUBJECT}, and in the process wrote a document on it. There are scattered docs all over the Web describing how to do this, but all of them are either outdated or incorrect in some regards (no offence intended), hence what I wrote. http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html I've CC'd freebsd-stable since I think more system administrators read that list than freebsd-doc. I've opened a PR for getting this doc, or pieces of it, added to the handbook or documentation tree. Don't have the PR number yet. I also encountered a reproducable bug with the mfs_root gzip loader (I believe some people in the past have reported this too?), and will be opening a separate PR for that. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |