Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 05:45:48 -0700 (PDT) From: bmk@dtr.com To: rsnow@txdirect.net (Rob Snow) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting "semi"-diskless? Message-ID: <199508301245.FAA03823@rainier> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950829220637.29162B-100000@oasis> from "Rob Snow" at Aug 29, 95 10:23:18 pm
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> I'm looking for some pointers on booting some of the machines around here > "semi"-diskless. The machines in question run dos and windows all day > long but, they're idle in the evening. I cant go around and put root/boot > partitions on them and I cant put a boot bios on the cards for obvious > reasons. What I'd like to do is stroll around whistling and innocently > put a floppy in them press reset, have them fire up FreeBSD. When I'm > through I just halt the machine and remove the floppy. > I've gathered, from TFM and some guessing that I need to do something like: > on floppy ( wild ass guess ) > minimum kernel with NFS (?) > something to do with bootp (?) The approach I used was to use netboot.com (a DOS program) from /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot. > on FreeBSD box > setup for as a bootp server > export /usr and some SWAP space for each (?) You also will need to set up tftpd and have a NFS-exported root for each machine. Check the FreeBSD Handbook and/or FAQ. One or both has a section on booting diskless in this manner.
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