Hi Stefan, No, the external storage is the DHCP server and the OpenBSD machine can NFS-mount the directories from the DHCP server once it's booted - This is my plan.
I am new to BSD. I have done this in Linux (RedHat) but not sure if OpenBSD can be done the same way. In Redhat, I would have to install it on a disk first and then copy the directory structure, the kernel and ram disk file to the DHCP server. David From: Stefan N [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:48 PM To: Li, David Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Diskless Install using PXEboot Hi David, As you intend to boot up OpenBSD via PXE, I assume that you have external storage. Will you install the OpenBSD in the iSCSI Storage? Regards, Stefan ________________________________ From: "Li, David" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:34 AM Subject: Diskless Install using PXEboot Hi, My goal is to use pxeboot to boot up a diskless x86_64 machine with openbsd. I am aware of this page: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE and followed the instructions. The bsd.rd was successfully downloaded. But the kernel crashed on booting up. I might have missed some steps here prior to this. Do I need to install it on a disk first and then use the bsd.rd from the disk install? Anyone can give me any pointers? Thanks. David
