From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 15 5: 1:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2C6937B476 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 05:01:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 79136 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Jan 2002 13:01:56 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:01:56 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netboot Message-ID: <20020115150156.B339@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Luigi Rizzo , Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200201141938.g0EJcwS80116@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <20020114115525.B69029@iguana.icir.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020114115525.B69029@iguana.icir.org>; from rizzo@icir.org on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:55:25AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:55:25AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:38:58PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I'm trying to refresh my memory WRT netbooting: > > > > There used to be a subdirectory /sys/i386/boot/netboot or something like > > that but I don't find it anymore. > > > > Was it that one could also write the rom contents into a .com (DOS executable) > > and boot a DOS floppy and put the netboot.com in AUTOEXEC.BAT to enter > > the netboot procedure? > > > > I believe there were only native drivers for WD and NE2000 cards. > > > > I'm thinking of the diskless option again. Does anyone know whether > > 3COM 905c are supported in this vein? > > go for etherboot, it is in the ports, it works just great, and you > can even dump the code on your hard disk (i typically do it > on sectors 2..62, the empty part of the first track) so > you have an etherboot partition at no cost! Etherboot works fine; however, for 3C905c there is another solution, which is much easier to setup (at least it was for me): PXE. The 905c BIOS supports PXE booting, and all you need to do on the FreeBSD server side is setup DHCP and NFS (and maybe some BOOTP and TFTP too, I do not really remember right now). Some documentation on setting up a PXE-booted FreeBSD installation may be found in Alfred Perlstein's article at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html G'luck, Peter -- .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message