From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 16:21:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.144.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2D637B402 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.2r) with SMTP id TAA09076; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:21:20 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: "matthew zeier" , Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD via PXE Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:52:57 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" References: <01c501c08a3a$46321f00$de3583d1@mrzto> In-Reply-To: <01c501c08a3a$46321f00$de3583d1@mrzto> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012918525700.43469@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I don't know if Alfred will get to this, but here is the pxe page: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ Tim On Monday January 29, 2001 16:27, matthew zeier wrote: > The handbook talks about "Diskless Operation" > (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/diskless.html) using > netboot.com/netboot.rom. > > I want to do something similiar with PXE. Anyone have a how-to > guide? I came across pxe-freebsd.txt but looks like I'm booting > Linux first and then FreeBSD. The 4.1 Release notes talk about PXE > support. > > We're trying to do headless installations of Solaris x86 which > doesn't currently support PXE installs. I'm hoping to boot FreeBSD > through PXE, mount a root fs from some host (right now a Solaris > host) and unroll tar balls into the partitions that Solaris should be > in. > > If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. > > Thanks. > > > -- > matthew zeier - "There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to > accomplish something." - Thomas Edison > > > > > 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