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Date:      Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:03:49 -0600
From:      Kevin Day <kevin@your.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD boot menu is missing
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On Nov 27, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>
> I wouldn't use a sysinstall script.
>
> Set up a file system (say /nfsroot) on an NFS server in your lab.


Just in case anyone needs a real step-by-step guide to getting a =20
diskless PXE/NFS boot going, I wrote this up a little while ago.

http://sigsegv.org/wiki/How_to_do_a_PXE_netboot_install_of_FreeBSD

The existing documentation was either a bit out of date, glossed over =20=

some of it or just flat out didn't work for me. Takes an existing =20
running system, clones it into /nfsroot, enables dhcpd/tftpd/nfsd, and =20=

relies on rc.diskless to make the magic happen after boot.




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