From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 09:29:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116EB16A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from idoru.mine.nu (cpc3-cdif2-3-0-cust202.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.103.32.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD41B43D46 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@idoru.mine.nu) Received: from rasputin by idoru.mine.nu with local (Exim 4.22) id 1BDQmY-0006gK-4e for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:29:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:29:06 +0100 From: Dick Davies To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20040413162904.GA27072@lb.tenfour> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: Rasputin Subject: netboot with serial? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dick Davies List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:29:07 -0000 Hi, this is probably doable but I'm stumped. I have a M6000 mini-itx box with a 20Gb drive and no cdrom, monitor or keyboard, and a NetBSD box running NFS. What I want to do is PXEboot the 6000 off the NetBSD box into FreeBSD (it has usb2 and firewire ports which are shaky at best under NetBSD). What I want really is to kick off a serial port install, and then install over NFS. I found http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html which is 90% of what I need, but doesn't do the serial bit. The steps as I understand it would be: 6000 boots pxe, gets a path to pxeboot and a nfs root directory via dhcp, mounts the root, grabs a (install) kernel the install starts as normal. On NetBSD you just have an serial port aware pxeboot, how do you guys do it? -- If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns