Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:09:04 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a machine over the network without pxe. Message-ID: <20030902210904.GB30594@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030902205418.GB30374@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20030902205418.GB30374@genius.tao.org.uk>
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--XOIedfhf+7KOe/yw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:54:18PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > Does anyone have any experience of booting a machine over the > network, like pxeboot, but without running PXE on a network card. > I imagine that it should be possible to load pxeboot at the boot: > prompt and have everything just work. >=20 > I could really do with booting my laptop into -stable, where it's only > got -current installed. I do however have a -stable server on site with > plenty of disk space. It would be really cool to remote boot of that > via NFS mounts, etc. I should have said, my network card is an aue (usb) device which cuts etherboot out of the equation. Joe --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --XOIedfhf+7KOe/yw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj9VBu8ACgkQXVIcjOaxUBbeZgCfUfmhY6Y2FgEE285R9wNmsSmm +nsAnj7OAd9Y37tz08iBuSkHV1SZ9Fqf =iL63 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XOIedfhf+7KOe/yw--
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