From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 13:28: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sumamail.com (ono.sumamail.com [207.38.123.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CB637B402 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.131.53.222] (HELO mrzto) by sumamail.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4b7) with SMTP id 360636 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:27:42 -0800 Message-ID: <01c501c08a3a$46321f00$de3583d1@mrzto> From: "matthew zeier" To: Subject: Install FreeBSD via PXE Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:27:23 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The handbook talks about "Diskless Operation" (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/diskless.html) using netboot.com/netboot.rom. I want to do something similiar with PXE. Anyone have a how-to guide? I came across pxe-freebsd.txt but looks like I'm booting Linux first and then FreeBSD. The 4.1 Release notes talk about PXE support. We're trying to do headless installations of Solaris x86 which doesn't currently support PXE installs. I'm hoping to boot FreeBSD through PXE, mount a root fs from some host (right now a Solaris host) and unroll tar balls into the partitions that Solaris should be in. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks. -- matthew zeier - "There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas Edison To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message