From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 16:40:14 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCA26AF7 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rr-iv.baywinds.org (50-196-187-251-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.196.187.251]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3DAD2F3 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.0.2.130] (rr-iii.baywinds.org [192.0.2.130]) by rr-iv.baywinds.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id t0UGNE38002167 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:23:15 -0800 Message-ID: <54CBAFF2.9000808@baywinds.org> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:23:14 -0800 From: Bruce Ferrell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE server to boot linux system References: <20150130154648.2ad757ff@Marc-Thinkpad> In-Reply-To: <20150130154648.2ad757ff@Marc-Thinkpad> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:40:14 -0000 On 01/30/2015 06:46 AM, Märk Owen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a FreeBSD system as a TFTP server which would allow > me to boot a Ubuntu root partition on the network. All the > documentation I've found either concerns FreeBSD as both client and > server or a FreeBSD server booting installation ISOs. > > I don't want to boot ISO images, I want to boot a real linux system on > the network. Is that possible? > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I'm relatively certain dhcp and tftp aren't different freebsd to linux, so what you need to do is configure dhpc/tftp and properly place the pxelinux.0 file on the tftp server, then place either a specif pxelinux config file per the instructions in the link below https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto