From owner-freebsd-small Thu Aug 13 07:44:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06160 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 07:44:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mirage.nlink.com.br (mirage.nlink.com.br [200.238.120.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06148 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 07:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luiz@nlink.com.br) Received: from mirage.nlink.com.br (mirage.nlink.com.br [200.238.120.3]) by mirage.nlink.com.br (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id LAA06350 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:43:39 -0300 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:43:39 -0300 (EST) From: Luiz de Barros Reply-To: Luiz de Barros To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DISKLESS and FLOPPYLESS remote serial boot. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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