From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 31 13:40:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAE437B479; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:40:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp241.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9VLd9f20467; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:40:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "O. Hartmann" Subject: RE: diskless boot failures with PXE 2.0 boot, diskless X11 Termi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31-Oct-00 O. Hartmann wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > All right, I saw I was false in using bootp ... :-( > > Now I set up a small DHCP server configuration with one > experimental client. Starting bootprocess over LAN with > PXE NIC works, it receives it's IP, netmask, gateway IP. > But when starting TFTP (I think now we are to boot any kind > of bootloader) I have no glue what's going on ... :-( When > using bootp previously I used a partition /usr/vol1/diskless > in which I let tftpd 'chroot' (by obtaining -s in inetd.conf), > there I created tftpboot and rootfs. In tftpboot I installed as > suggested some small files like 'cfg.10.0.0.1' for booting the > apropriate station by IP. Well, all things seems to be different > from the traditional bootp/tftp configuration when using DHCPD. > > It seems that it is not very common to use FBSD as diskless > X Terminal that way. I can not find any suggestions how to do > a full install, I found a lot of fragments, a mixture fo DHCP > and bootp. Use a NFS root, which is the easiest way. I did this for the terminal room at BSDCon. For one thing, read the pxeboot(8) manpage, which explains some of this. Also, for an example of using PXE (though not one which entirely applies to your situation) look at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~alfred/pxe/ which covers using PXE to install on boxes. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message