Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:33:08 -0700 From: Soren Kristensen <soren@soekris.com> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: net4501 easy install.... Message-ID: <3B6AFC74.61BC9F94@soekris.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108031320010.79911-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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Hi, 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) 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. I was then thinking about having a couple of different tarballs so you could use CF cards from 8 Mbyte and up. As 256 Mbyte cards are down to $134 (according to pricewatch), you could even make something like a firewall / gateway /email / web server.... Any takers ? Better ideas are also welcome :-) Regards, Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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