FreeBSD PXE installation howto

[Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre]

Hi,

I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the whole process and so on... finally I have ended looking at source code of some involved parts like sysintall, boot stages and so on.... for understanding all properly for setting up this service. I have written a documentation that if you see it to be ok... (it seems to be working fine) perhaps, would be nice to appear in handbook or in some official documentation site... So if you see something that should be done in another way... or some point wich you consider it's wrong... please make me know and I'll correct it. The url in wich you could fetch the pdf file is : http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/freebsdpxehowto.pdf

Thank you very much.

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[Diego F. Arias R.]

Hello There:

I will read it, just found a mountpoint named puntodemontaje, that maybe you
forgot to translate.

Will check it out latter.

Diego Arias



On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre <

Post by Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre
Hi,
I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with
pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started
looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the
whole process and so on... finally I have ended looking at source code of
some involved parts like sysintall, boot stages and so on.... for
understanding all properly for setting up this service. I have written a
documentation that if you see it to be ok... (it seems to be working fine)
perhaps, would be nice to appear in handbook or in some official
documentation site... So if you see something that should be done in another
way... or some point wich you consider it's wrong... please make me know and
http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/freebsdpxehowto.pdf
Thank you very much.
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[Chris Whitehouse]

Post by Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre
Hi,
I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the whole process and so on... finally I have ended looking at source code of some involved parts like sysintall, boot stages and so on.... for understanding all properly for setting up this service. I have written a documentation that if you see it to be ok... (it seems to be working fine) perhaps, would be nice to appear in handbook or in some official documentation site... So if you see something that should be done in another way... or some point wich you consider it's wrong... please make me know and I'll correct it. The url in wich you could fetch the pdf file is : http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/freebsdpxehowto.pdf
Thank you very much.
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Hi egoitz

s/wich/which/g

What is this line?
mkdir -p /usr/local/freebsd7/boot/defaults

Should it be
mkdir -p /expert/netboot/freebsd8/boot/defaults/
?

I think the line "Let's copy device.hints for booting the kernel loaded
by loader in this pxe boot. Let's copy too
some routine files for loader (and for forth shell) and a loader
defaults config file." should be above the block of mkdir and cp
commands above.

The phrase "but really it's optional you may not specify -u" probably
should say "but really it's optional, you don't have to specify -u". As
written it means you are not allowed to :)

Could you have used ftpd in the base system instead of tftp in inedt.conf?

Chris