Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 07:52:30 +1000 From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> To: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot without BOOTP/DHCP Message-ID: <199604072152.HAA08267@nemeton.com.au>
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On Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:52:18 -0500 (EST) Robert N Watson wrote: > I'd like to use netboot and a reduced kernel to load up FreeBSD > occasionally on my old 386 (which used to be my primary BSD system > back in 2.0 :) -- does anyone have a modified netboot that has a > hardcoded set of IP's to use, instead of bootp? Someone was working on this; I haven't heard recently. One gross hack is to boot from a floppy disk with a modified init that chroots the whole system. This sounded a wierd suggestion when it was made to me, but I did try it and it did work. The output of mount(8) was a little confusing though! [Code available if I haven't already tossed it on the grounds of ugliness.] > Would it be relatively easy (or hard) to modify netboot to use > a config file with settings specific to that PC instead of relying on > bootp? Easy -- hard code the IP addresses in the netboot code Middling -- use a configuration file (probably requires a DOS C compiler) Hard -- much anything else Giles
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