From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 19: 2:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0375D37B424 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA94816; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:02:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:02:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Cristian de la Fuente / Infomagica Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Network boot (was Re: Help!) In-Reply-To: <002f01c01c64$56382000$06cb1bc8@tanrox> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Cristian de la Fuente / Infomagica wrote: > I need to implement a system that boots from the network AND loads the > OS (LINUX) and apps from the server, that is, without a hard drive on > the client. Basically, like using the NIC as a hard drive controller > or whatever method that works (remote filesystem, remote disk images). > Do you know where I can find information on this? It has been a pain > so far. Sounds like you want BOOTP or something like it. Here are some pointers: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskless-x/x46.html http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/diskless.html http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskless-x/article.html -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message