Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:27:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Soren Kristensen <soren@soekris.com> Cc: <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: net4501 easy install.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108071524500.34911-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3B6AFC74.61BC9F94@soekris.com>
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This is kinda old, but my area of expertise. :) On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Soren Kristensen wrote: > Now that I'm starting starting to ship your net4501's, I was wondering > if somebody could do an easy installation procedure using PXE boot, I > don't really have enough experience with FreeBSd myself, and are short > of time anyway, busy doing the hardware :-) > > I was thinking something about a procedure where you could install > different sizes of FreeBSD using any platform as host, even a windoze > machine: > > Step 1) Setup a dhcp and tftp server, using just one directory (so even > the crapiest free dhcp and tftp server on a windoze machine would do it) As long as you can pass standard filename options, it should work. > Step 2) Download and decompress a .zip or .gz file with the PXE loader > and FreeBSD installer into that directory. > > Step 3) Optional, download the .gz distributions, basically just > tarballs with the files, into the directory. > > Step 4) Boot PXE, starting a modified (simplified....) FreeBSD > installer. > > Step 5) Using that installer, create partitions and filesystem on the > CF, then install the distribution using either tftp, ftp, nfs, or (if > possible) cifs. You can do a lot with a shell script .. fdisk -I is your friend. :) If you can shoehorn awk & sed into the image you can use the diskprep script out of the install picobsd image to build your disklabels automatically. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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