Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:28:58 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: jelinski@man.poznan.pl, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless operation Message-ID: <199608082258.IAA17791@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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In article <4udbun$dg7@al.imforei.apana.org.au> you wrote: : Hi! : I wanted to boot a diskless FreeBSD, so I read : the section Diskless operation in the handbook. : You can read in section 6. : "Unpack the root filesystem in the directory the client will : use for its root filesystem" : To unpack something I have to have a *tar file. Where can I find : it? Depending on what you want you'll need the files from freebsd distribution on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ You'll want the "bin" distribution, so download all the bin.?? files and then a cat bin.?? | tar xzvf - -C /diskless/rootfs/ should extract them to /diskless/rootfs (remember to do this as root so the ownerships are restored) You might want more stuff later (other parts of the distribution) but this should get you going... : Can FreeBSD or Linux be a bootp server for a diskless FreeBSD? : Thanks in advance for your help, Sure... Generic FreeBSD questions should really go to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org instead of freebsd-doc which is for documentation issues. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key
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