Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:36:55 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Just an idea... Message-ID: <XFMail.000104123655.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001040117030.1691-100000@merlin.onsea.com>
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On 04-Jan-00 Cliff Rowley wrote: > I was just thinking of ways to speed up installing FreeBSD on machines > that friends and colleagues pass on to me, and I wondered if BOOTP would > hold the key? > > Is it possible to set a machine up to boot an installation from the > network, and then install itself unattended? > > If it's not currently possible with the existing distribution, is it at > least possible at all? Sounds like a variation on diskelss booting. So the answer is 'it depends'. If your NIC is capable of it and you have a suitable rom image to put in it then it should work. But a more general solution is difficult - methinks. The NIC must know how to connect to a BOOTPserver at powerup, or rather to THE bootpserver - security is perhaps a problem. Just my 2 öre... /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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