From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 06:19:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FEA9106564A; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:19:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yi0-f54.google.com (mail-yi0-f54.google.com [209.85.218.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85778FC08; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:19:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yib19 with SMTP id 19so4925389yib.13 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:19:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=924M4aekzq0erLu9i6WV3cBQd8GJlv3LaNJtq8xIKHk=; b=RaQxeHuK54+HiOTkqhmJh3Dblu9RRWiRR/S9SV12e12aL1XT+PBhyPvoe/7tfu0dzK K0WSt9T/2LWHwRFpmCTpSuvqNCuRqQVck/JS5D5fIzrGYFgSjCBMGmpQTrfP9xOYjW34 6PcgDjYW2rNp/i7mET81zugHzWUQVS0nykUGQ= Received: by 10.43.134.69 with SMTP id ib5mr5168720icc.284.1314684736344; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:12:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c-24-6-49-154.hsd1.ca.comcast.net (c-24-6-49-154.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.49.154]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m21sm2998924ibf.42.2011.08.29.23.12.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:12:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Garrett Cooper To: Craig Rodrigues In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: kan@freebsd.org, rmacklem@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, alfred@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE Booting with an NFS root file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:19:15 -0000 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