Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 00:37:08 +0200 From: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: About specific pxeboot support Message-ID: <200505040037.09315.josemi@redesjm.local> In-Reply-To: <20050503222632.GA17595@stack.nl> References: <200505032126.34797.josemi@redesjm.local> <20050503222632.GA17595@stack.nl>
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El Mi=E9rcoles, 4 de Mayo de 2005 00:26, Marc Olzheim escribi=F3: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:26:34PM +0200, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > > Now, remembering a thread in -stable, and make a whish for the > > forthcomming FreeBSD-6. > > > > I think that the actual release build may be easy tweak to produce > > a populated /tftpboot directory ready for pxe tftp installs. (a > > tftp enabled pxeboot, a mfs rootfs based con boot_crunch ...). > > > > If this can be put in a tarball like tftpinstall.tar.gz in the ftp > > area, test of snapshots, betas, RCs, and so on will be done via > > bootp/tftp boots. > > Erhm... All you need is to mount the iso on your tftproot dir and > boot from it with console=3Dcomconsole... > And download the full CD and cope with some glitchs. Loock for the=20 thread on -stable. Right now, we do floppies, a FTP distribution and some isos. I only pointing that make release may be tweak to produce a some megs=20 tarball that you can expand on tftpboot. If we have the boot_crunch done and the root mfs, this additional target=20 can't be too complex. And it's easy to test that 'go floppies'. =2D- josemi
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