Brilliant--many thanks. After some more poking around, I also found this (I'd missed it because I never heard of PXE before):
http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml Cheers, -John > John, > > http://www.chuug.org/talks/index.html > > It's the first listing. > > Good Luck, > > Stephen > >> Hi there, >> >> I have just gotten my fingers on a Thinkpad 765D. The external floppy >> drive is busted, and the thing will not boot from CD-ROM. However, >> according to its bios settings, it should be able to netboot. >> >> Can someone point me in the right direction how to set up a bootp >> install server, analogous to Solaris jumpstart, for FreeBSD? I'd like >> to put 5.1-R on this thing, and I have a running 4.8-R server available. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
