Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:12:42 +0900 From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: Michael Collette <metrol@metrol.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Diskless setup for 5.3 ? Message-ID: <41712C5A.9060300@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200407191601.37413.metrol@metrol.net> References: <200407191601.37413.metrol@metrol.net>
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Michael Collette wrote: > After running through a stack of little pitfalls in trying to get a diskless > client running from a 5-CURRENT server I'm down to the last nasty here. Sorry, I have no answers to you question, but questions myself. I am trying to have a diskless PC boot from a server, running 5.3-Beta7, but so far I have not been able to get it work. I wonder if you would be willing to share your knowledge and experience on how to get this work. With a 4.X system, I already have been running a master PC (dual homed lan setup), which serves a cluster of 7 diskless PCs on its private network. So I quite understand how to set this up for 4.X. Soon, I will have to upgrade this cluster to 5.X. Meanwhile, for testing purpose, I have a separate PC (also dual homed lan) running 5.X-Beta7, which serves a single diskless PC. This is not yet working; the kernel seems to load well, but then nothing further happens. See also http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-current/2004-October/040449.html for a report and question on how far I've got with my setup. Help is very much appreciated, because I sensed that help with diskless setup is quite rare on the mailing list (not many people use it?). Thanks so much in advance! Rob.
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