Solved: FreeBSD diskless workstation boot over Linux PXE server

2008-03-04 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello Erik and all, thank you for all the help; all my issues are resolved, mostly stemming from silly misconfigurations and typos: 1. rc.conf file is missing - was caused by a typo - missing "#" from a comment line that began with the string "rc.conf". 2. i had some getty errors - bec. my /u

Re: FreeBSD diskless workstation boot over Linux PXE server

2008-03-04 Thread vincenzo romero
> Did you modify rc.conf, fstab and resolv.conf as described in > http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/diskless.html? yes: 1. fstab: cat fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# 192.168.16.5:/export/images/freeBSD

Re: FreeBSD diskless workstation boot over Linux PXE server

2008-03-04 Thread Erik Cederstrand
vincenzo romero wrote: Thank you for the input from a couple of folks. After a few research and readings I am able to boot off a diskless client; and have a little error encountered. To clarify the environment: 1. PXE/DHCP/NFS/TFTP servers is a linux host 2. DHCP - server - dhcpd.conf file s

Re: FreeBSD diskless workstation boot over Linux PXE server

2008-03-03 Thread vincenzo romero
Thank you for the input from a couple of folks. After a few research and readings I am able to boot off a diskless client; and have a little error encountered. To clarify the environment: 1. PXE/DHCP/NFS/TFTP servers is a linux host 2. DHCP - server - dhcpd.conf file shows the following: (for