From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Jun  6  8:16:12 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FAE837B82B
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue,  6 Jun 2000 08:16:03 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from mat@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca)
Received: (from mat@localhost)
	by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA29798;
	Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:15:50 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:15:49 -0400
From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>
To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@colltech.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: diskless installation
Message-ID: <20000606111549.A28905@cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006052017010.24370-100000@psasolar.private.psa.pencom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i
In-Reply-To: James A. Mutter's message [diskless installation] as of Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 08:19:30PM -0500
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Jun 05, James A. Mutter wrote:
> 
> I've been playing around with PXE and diskless booting for the last few
> days.  I've made quite a bit of progress lately and I'm happy to see
> that it's possible to boot a diskless system into a running system in a
> matter of minutes.  But... I'm booting significantly more than I need
> to.  What I'd like to do is to boot something similar to the
> "boot.flp" - just enough to perform a scripted sysinstal.  I've tried
> replacing the netbooted kernel with boot.flp (renamed to kernel of
> course) but this won't work.  
> 
> Any ideas?

	I'm guessing here but I think that you could extract the
kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz from the boot floppies and from the pxeloadr,
you could manually try to load them.  This should be exactly like you
booted from the CD-ROM or from floppies.


	--Mat

> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message