Hi On 05/30, Alari Kask wrote: > I have a vision of something like this : > > My OpenBSD machine acts as a pxe boot server, clients on the lan boot > pxe and get a choice of booting the operating system on the clients hard > drive, or boot openbsd kernel for installation or diagnostics and for > example boot memtest86 or some other diagnostic program ? > > Can this be done with OpenBSD ? > > I only saw instructions on booting OpenBSD kernel from PXE, but i would > like to have some more options, as described before. > > Any suggestions/comments are welcome.
OpenBSD can act as a boot server that's sure. You have to apped the following to your working DHCPD configuration. filename "something"; Then you have to setup a tftp server. (read it's man page) On boot the client will load the "something" specified in dhcp configuration from /tftpboot directory. (be carefull not to filter out with pf the tftp server!) Now you get to the point when you loaded the bootloader. (I not familiar enought with it so you have to figure out yourself.) Maybe I can help further if you ask more specific questions. -- "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." -- Bjarne Stroustrup cstamas
