From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 13:50:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A544216A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:50:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB48443D4C for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i08LnsA7020565; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:49:54 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i08LnsQ8020564; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:49:54 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:49:54 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Diomidis Spinellis Message-ID: <20040108214954.GA16048@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com> <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> <20040108095207.GA52153@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <20040108171108.GA6216@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3FFDC218.60607@aueb.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FFDC218.60607@aueb.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 21:50:12 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:48:24PM +0200, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >I think it would be really cool if someone would add a feature to > >disk 1 to become a PXE install server. It should be fairly straight > >forward other then dealing with sysinstall. >=20 > I presume the above means a PXE *client*. This would be cool, but by no= =20 > means trivial. I looked at this in the past when I wanted to network=20 > boot FreeBSD on a couple of machines that did not support a boot ROM and= =20 > reached a dead end; I ended up using PicoBSD and NFS-mounting most of=20 > the stuff. No, I mean a server. The hard part about using PXE to install a box is setting up the other box to boot the box your are installing on. It's not all the difficult, but it require a bit of knowledge, some grunt work, and a reasionable UNIX-like machine to start from. What I propose is adding enough stuff to disk 1 that you can do pxe installs like this: - find a random box with a cdrom drive and a supported nic - boot the install cd - select the "make me an install server" option from the menu - select an interface and configure it (or take a nice 10-net default) - pxe boot the boxes you want to install on and install over the network - shutdown the server, returning it to its previous function -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE//dCBXY6L6fI4GtQRAimDAJ4mV1vq4Rjlm+wt3kE8LhBrge6GeACfZL6f puxUt6rq4cIKMw1rrOsPEjw= =a7ND -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--