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From: Warren Block on 16 Jul 2010 19:52 "PXE Booting Utilities With FreeBSD" describes setting up a FreeBSD server to PXE-boot floppy, CD, and memory stick utility images using DHCP, TFTP, HTTP, and NFS. Now available at HTML: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pxe.html PDF: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/pdf/pxe.pdf Feedback and corrections are welcome. Thanks to Carl Chave, Jeremy Chadwick, Sam Fourman Jr., and Lowell Gilbert for their comments and suggestions! -- Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
From: Bob Eager on 17 Jul 2010 05:16 On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:52:00 +0000, Warren Block wrote: > "PXE Booting Utilities With FreeBSD" describes setting up a FreeBSD > server to PXE-boot floppy, CD, and memory stick utility images using > DHCP, TFTP, HTTP, and NFS. > > Now available at > HTML: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pxe.html PDF: > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/pdf/pxe.pdf > > Feedback and corrections are welcome. > > Thanks to Carl Chave, Jeremy Chadwick, Sam Fourman Jr., and Lowell > Gilbert for their comments and suggestions! Thanks, Warren. That looks really useful. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1976)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
From: Martin Johnson on 18 Jul 2010 10:55 On 17/07/2010 00:52, Warren Block wrote: > "PXE Booting Utilities With FreeBSD" describes setting up a FreeBSD > server to PXE-boot floppy, CD, and memory stick utility images using > DHCP, TFTP, HTTP, and NFS. > > Now available at > HTML: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pxe.html > PDF: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/pdf/pxe.pdf Good stuff! If I get some time, I might build a VMware image for this. It's useful to have such things around, particularly with a good choice of LiveCD images to boot into. One LiveCD image I like is Voyage Linux: http://linux.voyage.hk. You can use it as a distro in its own right, but personally I find it useful to PXE boot for remotely updating CF cards on Soekris embedded computers. I guess SystemRescueCD should be able to accomplish the same task, though. Thanks! - Martin
From: Warren Block on 19 Jul 2010 15:24
Martin Johnson <notformail(a)example.com> wrote: > > One LiveCD image I like is Voyage Linux: http://linux.voyage.hk. You > can use it as a distro in its own right, but personally I find it useful > to PXE boot for remotely updating CF cards on Soekris embedded > computers. I guess SystemRescueCD should be able to accomplish the > same task, though. Voyage should load using a variation on the Clonezilla entry (I think). It almost works; boots and loads the initrd image fine, but then panics: [ 9.625741] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! That's with "fetch=http://httphost/images/voyage/filesystem.squashfs". Maybe it just needs some kernel options to create a ramdisk. |