From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 22 4:33:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.de (mailout00.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930E437B417 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 04:33:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd00.sul.t-online.de by mailout00.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 166t2i-0006SZ-0A; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:33:24 +0100 Received: from peedub.muc.de (520017439985-0001@[217.235.114.33]) by fmrl00.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 166t2P-1Aq2CmC; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:33:05 +0100 Received: by peedub.muc.de (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fAMCWqC84707; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:32:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj) Message-Id: <200111221232.fAMCWqC84707@peedub.muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gary Jennejohn Reply-To: garyj@jennejohn.org To: Holm Tiffe , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot a diskless -current ? Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:04:10 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <200111221110.MAA48390@magnet.geophysik.tu-freiberg.de> In-Reply-To: <200111221110.MAA48390@magnet.geophysik.tu-freiberg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 22 November 2001 12:10, Holm Tiffe wrote: > Hi, > > it is the time again for me to investigate how diskless > booting -current is working today. > > I've got a german Telekom TDSL line und must convert from my > oldish I4B diskless router (386/40) to a new one, that's > capable to handle the DSL speed at 768K/sec. > > Since there are now to many differences between my -current > workstation at home and the 4.1-stable that's my i4B router > boots diskless, I've decided to run -current on the new router > also and I wish to share the / and the /usr filesystems > between the two. > > I have an 10base5 Network at home and the DSL modem comes with > an 10baseT interface. > > The Network cards I wish to use are some oldish WD8013 with an > etherboot rom and dhcp and for the DSL side an 3C509. > > What ist the way to boot , eg. which file I have to load with > dhcp? The cards doesn't support pxe. > > Please point me in the right direction... > If you really only plan to use the machine as a router than I suggest using picoBSD. That way you don't need any disk at all, except for a floppy. I have a tarball laying around here which is based on 4.4, I think, and which is intended for just such an application - a pppoe router booted from floppy. I haven't tried it out myself, but I did look at what's in the package and it appears to provide all the funcionality needed. If you're interested I could send it to you. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message