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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:38:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      Dan Feldman <protozoa@ghs.ssd.k12.wa.us>
To:        Paul Saab <ps@mu.org>
Cc:        Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>, Rohit Rakshe <rakshe@cs.umn.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103181137340.69357-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20010316141918.A46855@elvis.mu.org>

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For more docs, check out
http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml . It clarifies a
great deal.


 - dan feldman
   student, garfield high school, seattle

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Saab wrote:

> Thierry Herbelot (thierry@herbelot.com) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > One way to boot the kernel over the network is to use PXE (if your
> > machine is recent enough to support it *well* : that is with a recent
> > version of the PXE firmware)
> > 
> > there is no real document on PXE booting
> > you can read a note by Alfred Perlstein on
> > <http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe.html>, the manpage for pxeboot,
> > the code in rc.diskless{1,2}, the configuration of the boot server with
> > dhcp and tftp/nfs (you may have to tweak /etc/fstab in order to mount a
> > root partition which was not used to load /kernel ?)
> > 
> > there is also somme documentation on Intel's web site
> > 
> > I'm trying to use PXE, but it's not completly reliable (sometimes
> > pxeboot just crashes)
> 
> Upgrade the PXE rom
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ps/pxeroms/
> 
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