Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:33:33 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: jmutter <jmutter@ds.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Jumpstart" [boot.flp, how does it work?] Message-ID: <20000711233332.B25571@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10007120223210.8760-100000@s1.ds.net>; from jmutter@ds.net on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:25:06AM -0400 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10007120223210.8760-100000@s1.ds.net>
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* jmutter <jmutter@ds.net> [000711 23:26] wrote: > > This was originally sent to "-questions" though it occured to me that I > might get a wider audience of folks using FreeBSD in a production > environment here. My apologies for the cross post. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > I'm in a situation, (again), where we'll be implementing several FreeBSD > machines in a large production environment. To make this work though I > need to be able to get something similar to Sun's "Jumpstart". I noticed > that boot.flp has most of the functionality that I'm looking for, but I'm > not exactly sure how it works. > > My questions: > (*) Does anyone have the kernel config file for this? > (*) How does it load the Memory File System? > (*) Where is the MFS kept, how can I edit it's contents? > > I've looked at the image using the vn driver but wasn't able to get the > above information. > > This will be done using hardware with a serial console and Intel's PXE > functinality. I've read the "diskless howto", but it seems geared more > towards diskless workstations and goes a bit further than I need it to and > I'd like it to. > > Any and all hints, tips, or positive incantations are welcome. > Once I sanitize my config I'll post it, Google.com used it to install a rack of BSD servers and I need to make sure that it's clean before posting a 'HOWTO'. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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