On Nov 27, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just in case anyone needs a real step-by-step guide to getting a
diskless
PXE/NFS boot going, I wrote this up a little while ago.
http://sigsegv.org/wiki/How_to_do_a_PXE_netboot_install_of_FreeBSD
The existing documentation was either a bit out of date, glossed
over some
of it or just flat out didn't work for me. Takes an existing
running system,
clones it into /nfsroot, enables dhcpd/tftpd/nfsd, and relies on
rc.diskless
to make the magic happen after boot.
That's a good brief guide, but a lot of the information is already
contained in: <http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html
>.
That reminds me that I need to add some documentation for booting
OpenFirmware Mac's with Netboot (some experiences that I had at Cisco
that I wanted to pass down for others).
Saying this carefully so I don't sound like I'm volunteering to update
a bunch of docs... :)
The problems I encountered with that PXE guide is:
* It's now 5 floppies instead of 2 to get sysinstall going. The PXE
loader can't handle this (keeps prompting you for the next floppy).
Alfred's changes to loader.rc don't work anymore.
* The loader has problems with launching gzipped kernels brought over
PXE for some reason. I dunno when this started.
* vnconfig is now mdconfig
* His guide was just to get sysinstall running, not end up with a
usable diskless workstation.
* It doesn't mention the dhcp option "root-path", which was where I
kept getting stuck.
It worked flawlessly when 4.0 was -CURRENT, but it's a bit out of date
in a few places.
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