On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:48:24PM +0200, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >I think it would be really cool if someone would add a feature to > >disk 1 to become a PXE install server. It should be fairly straight > >forward other then dealing with sysinstall. > > I presume the above means a PXE *client*. This would be cool, but by no > means trivial. I looked at this in the past when I wanted to network > boot FreeBSD on a couple of machines that did not support a boot ROM and > reached a dead end; I ended up using PicoBSD and NFS-mounting most of > the stuff.
No, I mean a server. The hard part about using PXE to install a box is setting up the other box to boot the box your are installing on. It's not all the difficult, but it require a bit of knowledge, some grunt work, and a reasionable UNIX-like machine to start from. What I propose is adding enough stuff to disk 1 that you can do pxe installs like this: - find a random box with a cdrom drive and a supported nic - boot the install cd - select the "make me an install server" option from the menu - select an interface and configure it (or take a nice 10-net default) - pxe boot the boxes you want to install on and install over the network - shutdown the server, returning it to its previous function -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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