Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:12:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: kan@freebsd.org, rmacklem@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, alfred@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE Booting with an NFS root file system Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108292311370.79199@toaster.local> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108292256560.79199@toaster.local> References: <CAG=rPVenPP0n5uu8JGAksyTbPW3zMfxz%2BEJNvsPZ=o4P_pex3A@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108292256560.79199@toaster.local>
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> A few years ago, I needed to set up a PXE boot with NFS root file >> system for FreeBSD. I found >> the FreeBSD docs for setting this up scattered all over the place, and it >> took me a while to figure everything out how to set up >> all the individual pieces, debug it, and get things working. >> >> I captured my notes in this text file: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/pxe/freebsd-pxe.txt >> >> I would like to contribute this back to the FreeBSD Documentation project >> as >> a new section of the FreeBSD Handbook. This is my first attempt >> at SGML Docbook: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/doc/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-pxe-nfs.html >> >> and the patch is here: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/nfs-pxe.diff.txt >> >> >> Can I get some feedback on this? If it is OK, can I commit it? I >> don't normally commit to src/doc. > > A lot of this document could point to other documentation, in particular: > > - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/boot.html > - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.htmlC > - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-inetd.html > - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-dhcp.html > > 31.8.1: > > 5. Assuming that inetd.conf is vanilla, all you need to do is uncomment > the line with '^#tftp' in it. > > 9. mergemaster does some magic that make distribution doesn't. > > 31.8.3: > > 1. isc-dhcp30-server is no longer available in ports / as a package. It > should be isc-dhcp31-server, isc-dhcp41-server, or isc-dhcp42-server. > > 31.8.4: > > - Should suggest that users read loader(8). Poking through the handbook some more, this might be a good home for the doc: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-diskless.html . Cheers, -Garrett
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