Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:36:24 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Headless Installation from CDROM Message-ID: <E15NDya-00066H-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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I posted a question yesterday about how to do a FreeBSD installation via serial port. A person nicely reminded me of the Handbook which has a chapter on "headless installations." I wondered how I missed that and then was reminded that I should have included two more things in my question so here I go again. How can I do a headless installation on a system that only has a CDROM? The good news is that the disk we are using was one we burned from an image on one of the FreeBSD mirrors so I could unpack it and modify whatever I need to and maybe burn another boot CDROM if that is necessary. The systems being installed are IBM Netfinity boxes that ship with only a CDROM as the boot source and have 2 serial ports. The headless installation as described in the Handbook is precisely what I need to do only I am not sure what must be modified on the CDROM to make it happen. This may be an increasingly common situation as more and more systems do not have 1.4MB floppies as part of their standard configuration. Martin McCormick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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