Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:25:55 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Documentation: Installing FreeBSD 7.0 via serial console and PXE Message-ID: <1201695955.889.1.camel@RabbitsDen> 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>
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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)
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