Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:14:59 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) Cc: Tor.Egge@idt.ntnu.no, phk@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot and kernel bootp Message-ID: <199701202115.WAA15121@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199701202117.PAA13259@solaria.sol.net> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 20, 97 03:17:16 pm
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> > Hi, > > > > I am at a good point in cleaning up the netboot/kernel bootp code > > so that booting can be done without using TFTP (I have this already ... > What are you doing, if not tftp? BOOTP to get all the booting parameters, then NFS to load the kernel. > Related, sorta: > > I built a prototype "xkernel" type xterminal configuration for FreeBSD > that boots off of a floppy and NFS mounts a minimal amount of stuff off > of a file server. It's a little ugly but works fine. > > I avoided the whole TFTP thing too, mainly out of necessity, since I did > not see a way to make a de-based netboot without lots of work. the kernel bootp stuff developed by Tor Egge probably does exactly what you need. Hopefully some committer will try it out and do the commit. It's really unintrusive. Luigi
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