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From: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: installing 4.8 using pxe
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On Wednesday 14 May 2003 04:32 pm, lasse lindgren wrote:
> Hello
>
> Im new to this list and new to freebsd, actually i havent installed
> it yet.
> The thing is i have to use PXE to install it, and there is NO
> floppy,NO cdrom or VGA on this computer.
>
> Now you might wonder what is it you are installing? It's a motorola
> 5360.
>
> Its capable of pxebooting, (im from the linux world) hda is a 16M cf
> Hdb is a standard harddrive. User interface is a serialport, running
> @38400,8n1. NIC is a eepro100
>
> The computer is currently installed with linux, but since i have many
> computers like this one, i thought about migrating into freebsd.
>
> I guess in linuxterm's i need a kernel and a rootdisk with the
> install package. I tried the ones from the cd, it didn't give me any
> output on the serial port. (that i know workes, since before it loads
> the kernel i have to type what it should boot ...)
>
> Please help :)

You'll have better luck asking this on freebsd-questions. We are all 
rookies here.

Good luck, and let us know how it works out.
Gary