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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:31:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: pxe booting problem
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011030073150.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011030143039.28447.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com>

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On 30-Oct-01 Paul Jansen wrote:
> I posted some of this info last friday but haven't had
> any responses.  I'm hoping someone out there knows
> what the problem is.  Here's the details:
> 
> I saw Alfred Perlsteins page on how to setup
> FreeBSD installs unsing PXE.  
> The problem I'm having now is when I follow Alfred's
> directions to create the PXE loader (using 4.4R) It
> bombs out.  It's my understanding the I just need to
> stick 'pxeldr' into the root of the TFTP server
> directory and tell the machine to execute this by
> specifying it as the boot file in the DHCP
> configuration.  I also understand that I have to
> create a subdirectory called 'boot' under the TFTP
> root directory with the file 'loader.rc' in it.  Can
> someone verify if this is the case?
> Alfred's instructions can be found here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
> 
> This is the console output that insues when I try and
> build pxeldr as per Alfred's instructions:

You need pxeboot (not pxeldr, pxeldr is part of pxeboot).  Do you have the
sources for libstand (src/lib/libstand) installed?

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