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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: diskless FreeBSD
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> Greetings,
> 
> 	I want to create a floppy bootable diskless FreeBSD system 
> 	- basically the system will bootup and operate from 
> 	the floppy , providing routing/ipfiltering, http caching (from memory),
> 	http redirection, DNS caching, etc so that multiple PCs (students)
> 	on Ethernet can share the connection to an internet gateway.
> 
> 	Where can I locate information about making one ?

It looks like you are mixing up something: Either you run your machine
diskless (that is your kernel is loaded over the net and that kernel plus
the following mounts etc. determine the behaviour/setup of your system)

or

You boot from a floppy with a special kernel which would require being
able to make releases.

I assume you don't want to run the latter.

To achieve the former build /sys/i386/boot/netboot/netboot.com
and put it on a (ick) DOS bootable floppy - it would be interesting to
find a way to circumvent having to boot DOS btw.

Read up the chapter 'diskless operation' (or something) in the
handbook.html.


> 
> 	Thank you for your help.
> 
> 	Francis
> 
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de