From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 11 23:25:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9046C37BA01 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@ds.net) Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by s1.ds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA08773 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 02:25:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 02:25:06 -0400 (EDT) From: jmutter To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: "Jumpstart" [boot.flp, how does it work?] Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This was originally sent to "-questions" though it occured to me that I might get a wider audience of folks using FreeBSD in a production environment here. My apologies for the cross post. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- I'm in a situation, (again), where we'll be implementing several FreeBSD machines in a large production environment. To make this work though I need to be able to get something similar to Sun's "Jumpstart". I noticed that boot.flp has most of the functionality that I'm looking for, but I'm not exactly sure how it works. My questions: (*) Does anyone have the kernel config file for this? (*) How does it load the Memory File System? (*) Where is the MFS kept, how can I edit it's contents? I've looked at the image using the vn driver but wasn't able to get the above information. This will be done using hardware with a serial console and Intel's PXE functinality. I've read the "diskless howto", but it seems geared more towards diskless workstations and goes a bit further than I need it to and I'd like it to. Any and all hints, tips, or positive incantations are welcome. Thanks, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message