Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:49:03 +0200 From: iv gan <devif0@gmail.com> To: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> Cc: Sarath Kamisetty <sarath.kamisetty@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD over network or serial links? Message-ID: <356446ef050825024925fb8c4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050824224729.0642f650@cobalt.antimatter.net> References: <641e6aa9050824175462de4b7d@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20050824224729.0642f650@cobalt.antimatter.net>
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If your don't have pxe on your motherboard try the Etherboot. www.etherboot.org greets On 8/25/05, Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> 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" >
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