From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Aug 27 14: 6:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED1A37B422 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27019; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:06:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA01906; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:06:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:06:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Ada Lim Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hd-only install In-Reply-To: <20000813201849.A1033@urquell.cse.unsw.edu.au> References: <20000813201849.A1033@urquell.cse.unsw.edu.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14761.32924.844454.230854@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ada Lim writes: > How do I install FreeBSD on a machine that only has a hard disk and no > other removable media? NetBSD can install through bootp/tftp... The easiest way is to netboot via bootp/tftp. You'll want to extract the kernel from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.1-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp Then setup a diskless root area that looks like this: <8:50am>blah/gallatin:~>ls /j/diskless/ boot/ kernel.gz* mfsroot.gz <8:51am>blah/gallatin:~>ls /j/diskless/boot/ netboot* You want to use "/j/diskless/boot/netboot" as your boot file. It will then load the kernel. You can copy netboot from another FreeBSD/alpha box or just fetch it from http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/netboot.gz Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message