From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 30 12:27:43 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 F29F016A475 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:27:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gaijin.k@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5CD13C4FB for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:27:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gaijin.k@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so60302anc.13 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:27:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E1mBenQqhim5l7Zuqtk2Zj/hBPJW5Jj6zEF6R56yQOs=; b=LDItvCfbxZWxLhM99z7c8gGTrW6rdny9f4jElkJogwDkMxngwfXzICnkCDwjxolP9muEA6jWtA9iOOsQUy1Oj28ER+ZKuRz9+B+4JBFBWFUBvQG/Mfem/FHORYYTFHXCTPpQGPb9wiaWp8qX3sz0Axoudjly/pBbU1ePM0nfRnc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=iMYC8VEGke303OvsPmy6ndKbUNVzW8shpvuyQu70Uny3xaEpUpMu2tyzSdlJFwkNx/tMc5sXcuLtRzffBlh5R2Ycy7eV4VjJraew3nPpxPdnr8LjhUl2q/5IrbTy8LPsU89JTwXiw/uMZz6EQ+jDrDonTVz5O9cLinjgx/ADItk= Received: by 10.100.110.15 with SMTP id i15mr1442703anc.49.1201696062307; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.3.231? ( [70.111.175.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b7sm777522ana.5.2008.01.30.04.27.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:27:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" To: Jeremy Chadwick In-Reply-To: <20080129200619.GA18799@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20080129190913.GA6104@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080129195043.GA45752@sandvine.com> <20080129200619.GA18799@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:25:55 -0500 Message-Id: <1201695955.889.1.camel@RabbitsDen> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ed Maste Subject: Re: 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: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:27:44 -0000 On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:06 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:50:43PM -0500, Ed Maste wrote: > > > iv. Knowledge of how TFTP and DHCP work, and how to debug them if > > > they break, > > > v. Intricate knowledge of configuring a DHCP server (common > > > question: "what's the 'next-server' and 'option root-path' > > > stuff? Is it needed? Why?") > > > > I admit that I haven't tried installing Linux or Solaris via PXE, but I > > find it interesting that such knowledge wouldn't be required for them. > > It's much more "solid" in the sense that with Linux, you simply tell the > boot loader (GRUB or whatever else) to pass the kernel an argument that > says "use this serial port speed, no VGA console, and output everything > to this serial port". That's *it*. > > I'd have to dig a little deeper on Solaris i386 (I'm pretty sure it's a > boot loader option, similar to -S115200 in /boot.config on FreeBSD), but > on Sparc I believe OpenBoot takes care of this pain for you. At least on my V100 (which is admittedly old machine) it does so by mandating 9600,n,8 -- no choice, no pain ;) -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)