From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 23:15:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70AC16A41F for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:15:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sullrich@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C349843D5C for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:15:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sullrich@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so893293wra for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:15:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BTTx62FNXayMEAvRCSFR3EReTXXJGSm4twIFSjARkT1gwmPwZFciHpUQu3bRsUI4LG9VI0bwd5GS9+TWdd8IJYKY40vrfnt2Hl8Y1L+9y9dBbpNWB7OHxatsqqxF9/Ja8wH0YoncyQhWQKt6negQpthK2BPK97udHJfOTdD5Zhs= Received: by 10.64.208.18 with SMTP id f18mr1175710qbg; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:15:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.181.18 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:15:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:15:07 -0500 From: Scott Ullrich To: Dario Freni In-Reply-To: <20051217225939.GD9343@cvs.freesbie.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <439AE13D.1040800@locolomo.org> <20051217225939.GD9343@cvs.freesbie.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contacts for project idea list X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:15:09 -0000 Support already exists for NetBoot/PXE and works fine with DragonyFly. Last I tried (with FreeBSD 5) I ran into some type of issue that was fixed in DragonFly prior. I really wish that I can remember what the exact issue was but I cannot at this point. For all I know it may just work out of the box now with FreeBSD 6. I should give this a test soon. Scott On 12/17/05, Dario Freni wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:07:57PM +0100, Erik N?rgaard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One on the questions-list pointed my attention to the PXE installer > > project on the project idea list http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ > > > > There is no responsible for the project yet, nor are there any technica= l > > contacts for the category (userland/installation tools) nor is there an= y > > contact address for the idea-list maintainer. > > > > So ... who came up with this idea? Who should I bug if I want to > > contribute to this? > > (re-sending to mailing list) > > This can be intepreted/implemented in many ways. As Alexander said, > this can be a "dummy" installer which formats, partitions and install > over the network. > > In my todo list, instead, there's (since at least one year) the idea > to implement this with FreeSBIE and BSD Installer. BSD Installer was > already ported to FreeSBIE one year ago, and the actual version of BSD > Installer works with the new version of the FreeSBIE toolkit. > > It can be nice to have a dedicated version of FreeSBIE which ships > with a dhcp server on it and can act as a PXE server, allowing clients > to netboot into BSD Installer. If you agree, we can start working on > it. > > Bye, > Dario > > -- > Dario Freni (saturnero@freesbie.org) > FreeSBIE developer (http://www.freesbie.org) > GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc > > >