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Date:      Wed, 4 May 2005 00:26:32 +0200
From:      Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To:        Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: About specific pxeboot support
Message-ID:  <20050503222632.GA17595@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200505032126.34797.josemi@redesjm.local>
References:  <200505032126.34797.josemi@redesjm.local>

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On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:26:34PM +0200, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> Now, remembering  a thread in -stable, and make a whish for the 
> forthcomming FreeBSD-6.
> 
> I think that the actual release build may be easy tweak to produce a 
> populated /tftpboot directory ready for pxe tftp installs. (a tftp 
> enabled pxeboot, a mfs rootfs based con boot_crunch ...).
> 
> If this can be put in a tarball like tftpinstall.tar.gz in the ftp area, 
> test of snapshots, betas, RCs, and so on will be done via bootp/tftp 
> boots.

Erhm... All you need is to mount the iso on your tftproot dir and boot
from it with console=comconsole...

sysinstall is very capable of running on comconsole.

Or do you mean you would like a minimal install (diskspace) to enable
ftp/nfs installs only ?

Marc

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