Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:22:09 +0000 (UTC) From: omestre <omestre@freeshell.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a machine over the network without pxe. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.56.0309091419430.18595@sdf.lonestar.org> In-Reply-To: <20030902205418.GB30374@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20030902205418.GB30374@genius.tao.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote: Here is How i have made this task: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54383 I guess that is exactly what you want. I have posted a PR, and maybe the FreeBSD devel team "think about it". :) []'s Leal > Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:54:18 +0100 > From: Josef Karthauser <joe@freebsd.org> > To: hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Booting a machine over the network without pxe. > > Does anyone have any experience of booting a machine over the > network, like pxeboot, but without running PXE on a network card. > I imagine that it should be possible to load pxeboot at the boot: > prompt and have everything just work. > > I could really do with booting my laptop into -stable, where it's only > got -current installed. I do however have a -stable server on site with > plenty of disk space. It would be really cool to remote boot of that > via NFS mounts, etc. > > Joe > -- > Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ > FreeBSD (cvs meisterk admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ > Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ > ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. ================= > omestre@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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