From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 12 9:15:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E677F37C15E for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6CGFej52822; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:15:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: jmutter Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Jumpstart" [boot.flp, how does it work?] In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, jmutter wrote: > 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? Check out PicoBSD in src/release/picobsd, in particular the install floppy. I used to use this at eGroups before migrating to pxeboot. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message