From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 4 04:00:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10291065670 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 04:00:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carl@chave.us) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 881F38FC08 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 04:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb1 with SMTP id 1so1757228gwb.13 for ; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:00:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.80.5 with SMTP id d5mr1474282agb.17.1278216039918; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.101.1 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 21:00:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 00:00:39 -0400 Message-ID: From: Carl Chave To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pxe LiveCD setup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:00:47 -0000 > After a very cursory setup, it works! =A0I took notes and will write it u= p in > a bit. > > The only complaint I have so far is the speed of download via tftp. =A0A = 236M > ISO took two minutes to load, or about 2M per second. =A0A full CD takes = a > long, long time. =A0Is that typical, or maybe just the poor Ethernet on t= his > Aspire One D250? I haven't timed them so I can't say for sure. The biggest file I currently use is a windows PE .iso and it does take a bit to transfer. I'll breakout the stopwatch next week and see. My DHCP/tftp server is a Sunfire V240 with Solaris 10. I was having a horrible time with the default tftp server and switched to tftpd-hpa which helped a lot, especially with being able to remap \ to /. Floppy images work well also. I've got a Freedos boot disk floppy image with 3com's universal PXE ethernet driver for dumping and restoring ghost images. Works out of the box with every PXE client I've tried, no need to have custom boot disks with different nic drivers. One of the tweaks I did with the grldr file was to hex edit a section so it goes straight to the menu instead of cycling though the mac address variations. Then I added the company logo to the background of the menu... and ... nobody sees it but me!