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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:09:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd port of netboot?..
Message-ID:  <200008311809.LAA98824@whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008302226.e7UMQoG95533@netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Aug 30, 2000 03:26:50 pm"

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Peter Wemm writes:
| Warner Losh wrote:
| > In message <Pine.OSF.4.20.0008291444240.18775-100000@wally> Christopher Stein
|      writes:
| > : .. does anyone know if this exists? It would
| > : speed up the panic-edit-compile-boot-copy-boot kernel hacking 
| > : cycle by transforming it to panic-edit-compile-netboot.
| > 
| > I usually mount everything readonly when I try a new module just
| > before loading it.  It saves a tone of time.  All I gotta fsck on the
| > way back up is /var since it won't mount ro after syslog starts, which 
| > makes sense if you think about it.
| > 
| > mount -ur /
| > mount -ur /usr
| > moutn -ur /junk
| > 
| > is what I have in a script.  After it succeeds, I do a mount -uwa
| > which updates all the mounts.
| > 
| > You can also netboot via a ROM on your ethernet card or via floppy,
| > but I've not done that.  The above works well enough for me.
| 
| Also, if you have a PXE-aware network card or bios, netbooting
| with a small ramdisk is very convenient for crash-and-burn testing.

Since vmware doesn't do PXE, etherboot works nicely with it.  This way
you can neboot your vmware session and with Julians psuedo serial port 
thing you have a nice environment.

Doug A.


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