Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:25:03 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges) Message-ID: <4C3B5DFF.7050900@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: <4C3B52D9.9060602@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <AANLkTil1jtcgOV5c5rLQabS2kJ2DA09haRY3VB0bgA8x@mail.gmail.com> <4C34CA31.7010804@aldan.algebra.com> <AANLkTimQFCxQpCx32dxvYscGspUkqyRbyPE_ru8RS5My@mail.gmail.com> <4C34E39A.7090905@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708135353.GA43460@icarus.home.lan> <4C35E9D4.8080007@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708164022.GA46433@icarus.home.lan> <4C3618B9.8010202@aldan.algebra.com> <AANLkTilgF74-g1VKs7A8k0L83dmpOfFW-p7NAsZiGE8z@mail.gmail.com> <4C3B52D9.9060602@aldan.algebra.com>
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Am 12.07.10 19:37, schrieb Mikhail T.: > 12.07.2010 13:11, Adam Vande More wrote: >> Roll it into your media > You lost me right here... Rolling one's own media (for every release > and release-candidate) may be Ok for someone in charge of making, at > least, several installations per week. > > For someone like myself, who just wanted to use a downloaded CD-image > straight (without burning it first), there is got to be a way to use > the FreeBSD-distributed images... I'm not asking for the full power > offered by "kickstart" et al, I just want the booting image to be a > little bit smarter than it already is and do The Right Thing^TM > regardless of whether it is booting from the local CD-ROM or remotely. > hm, I second that. While I fully understand that the iso images purpose is _not_ doing a netinstall, I'd like to have a downloadable image which is easy pxebootable and just drops into a shell. Ideally it does a dhcp request, if successful starts a sshd and if not has video and serial output enabled. Did anybody actually stripped down a FreeBSD to do just that? I read my way through the pxeboot articles and the handbook section of netbooting and everything... however, it really sounds a bit overcomplicated to do a "make release" and stuff. No offense ment, obviously :) best, Marian
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