Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:43:39 -0300 (EST) From: Luiz de Barros <luiz@nlink.com.br> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DISKLESS and FLOPPYLESS remote serial boot. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813112905.3912F-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br>
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Dear All, We are planning to install in some of our clients an small router with no HardDisk. We plan to use PicoBSD but one of our fears is having a floppy disk inside the disk drive all the time, subject to disk errors, CRC errors, etc. Is it possible to have the following setup? One computer with network card, BOOTPROM, no floppy and no Hard Disks. One serial conection connected to a remote freebsd PPP server. I want to load a small bootstrap from the PROM and download the FreeBSD boot code from the serial line ( PPP + TFTP ), the same way it is done with bootp+ TFTP loading the boot code from the ethernet bus. Is it done anywhere? Is it possible? Could anybody point me some tips? Thanks in advance. Luiz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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