From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 09:49:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4ECF16A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:49:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from devif0@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC83343D49 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:49:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from devif0@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i24so91943wra for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:49:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GhloL5xFX/Y1jD5hfENhX/uKEa8Oqx9KHyt8ZoGXLCsDsLZcJpQ/5y+juRAEF4BmPDZRmqPtQeSBvqNJ+XMUa9jrG1TtSuB+zYEYz2YrE53fp2AuMudnYur+j/ihvFzWV2wbUUFUmlWCZ9wlmcx/6tFhVSCej0alxl/qQYrd/Xw= Received: by 10.54.120.1 with SMTP id s1mr1732545wrc; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:49:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.69.4 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:49:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <356446ef050825024925fb8c4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:49:03 +0200 From: iv gan To: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050824224729.0642f650@cobalt.antimatter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <641e6aa9050824175462de4b7d@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20050824224729.0642f650@cobalt.antimatter.net> Cc: Sarath Kamisetty , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD over network or serial links? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:49:06 -0000 If your don't have pxe on your motherboard try the Etherboot. www.etherboot.org greets On 8/25/05, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 05:54 PM 8/24/2005, Sarath Kamisetty wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have two PCs, one with linux installed and another one is a old PC. > >I would like use my linux pc to make modifications to freebsd code > >base and then test it on my old PC. After compiling freebsd image on > >my linux pc, how do I boot this image on my old PC ? Is there a cost > >effective way of doing this without using floppies or CDs which is > >time consuming ? Can I run some special image on my old PC to let it > >fetch the newly compiled image everytime ?? Does anyone have this kind > >of setup ? Can I setup a console server for cheap and acheive this ? > >Please share your thoughts on this. >=20 > If you have an intel NIC which supports PXE, you can boot the machine > from a kernel that's on another machine and shared by NFS or > tftp. Take a look at the man page for pxeboot(8), as well as the > development(7) man page for some good info. >=20 > -Glenn >=20 >=20 > >Thanks, > >Sarath > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >