On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:10:50AM +0200, Mikael Bak wrote: > Pertti, András, > Thank You for the useful links! > Kiitos and Köszönöm szépen :-) > > Gót András wrote: > > Hi, > > > > AFAIK only the kernel and initrd (in the linux case) can be booted from > > tftp, that's a PXE feature. When the kernel loaded it takes over and from > > then on the kernel will need a rootfs from somewhere. I don't think that a > > tftp rootfs is possible. > > > > Yes, I know it's not possible to have the rootfs on tftp. That is not my > goal. I only wish to host an image file containing a rootfs that will > act as a ram disk. Much like the initrd does in the Linux world. The > rootfs will only contain the things needed to start the installation > process.
Have a look at ThinBSD. It a mini FreeBSD-5.x system which uses a ramdisk image as root. It can be booted from a TFTP server, without NFS. The web site is here: http://thinbsd.zefyris.com/ I use it everyday to run a X terminal. -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
