From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 3:37:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E268F1541C for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 03:37:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA09246; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:36:56 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:36:55 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Cliff Rowley Subject: RE: Just an idea... Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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