On Thursday 22 November 2001 12:10, Holm Tiffe wrote: > Hi, > > it is the time again for me to investigate how diskless > booting -current is working today. > > I've got a german Telekom TDSL line und must convert from my > oldish I4B diskless router (386/40) to a new one, that's > capable to handle the DSL speed at 768K/sec. > > Since there are now to many differences between my -current > workstation at home and the 4.1-stable that's my i4B router > boots diskless, I've decided to run -current on the new router > also and I wish to share the / and the /usr filesystems > between the two. > > I have an 10base5 Network at home and the DSL modem comes with > an 10baseT interface. > > The Network cards I wish to use are some oldish WD8013 with an > etherboot rom and dhcp and for the DSL side an 3C509. > > What ist the way to boot , eg. which file I have to load with > dhcp? The cards doesn't support pxe. > > Please point me in the right direction... >
If you really only plan to use the machine as a router than I suggest using picoBSD. That way you don't need any disk at all, except for a floppy. I have a tarball laying around here which is based on 4.4, I think, and which is intended for just such an application - a pppoe router booted from floppy. I haven't tried it out myself, but I did look at what's in the package and it appears to provide all the funcionality needed. If you're interested I could send it to you. -- Gary Jennejohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
