Re: PXE boot jumpstarting
Hello Erik, * Erik Nrgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [25-04-06 20:44]: Server went down, power failure I think, at 9.XXam and I wasn't home to put it back up. ah ok :) Great manual! Best regards, Matthias pgpxvhInyMvK3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PXE boot jumpstarting
While we are on the subject, is it possible to setup a FreeBSD PXE server that lets you netboot different OSes from iso images via a boot menu? I know it's possible with linux [1] [2]. Could be useful in labs where you use different OSes and want to minimize cd/dvd clutter. [1] http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/pxeboot.html [2] http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/Setting_up_a_pxe_server.html Cheers, Vahan Erik Nørgaard wrote: It does, take a look at this: http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pub/pxeboot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PXE boot jumpstarting
Hello Erik, * Erik Nrgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [25-04-06 00:19]: http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pub/pxeboot is it possible, that the side is down? I got always: Connection to 81.33.11.59 Failed Best regards, Matthias pgpyrSyWkH2in.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PXE boot jumpstarting
Matthias Fechner wrote: Hello Erik, * Erik Nrgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [25-04-06 00:19]: http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pub/pxeboot is it possible, that the side is down? I got always: Connection to 81.33.11.59 Failed Server went down, power failure I think, at 9.XXam and I wasn't home to put it back up. Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Subject ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 Fingerprint: 7F:80:96:EA:95:92:E2:23:1F:FA:0F:98:92:C2:CC:55:6B:9A:8C:92 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: PXE boot jumpstarting
On 4/25/06, Vahan Yerkanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we are on the subject, is it possible to setup a FreeBSD PXE server that lets you netboot different OSes from iso images via a boot menu? I know it's possible with linux [1] [2]. Could be useful in labs where you use different OSes and want to minimize cd/dvd clutter. yes. in fact, most of the steps are exactly the same; the only difference is that you need to download syslinux itself, as I don't think it's in the ports tree. As a general rule, if the platform can install a dhcp server with the pxeboot options, and a basic tftp server, it can pxeboot anything you want it to. Now, this doesn't mean that what you pxeboot will be able to get auxillary files it needs off the server, but that's to be expected, and planned for (that's why the next server option is there, after all!). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PXE boot jumpstarting
Does PXE boot installing in fact work in 6.0? sysinstall has all this nice jumpstart/kickstart-like stuff in it, and I'd love to use this for deploying new servers. It worked so nicely in 4.11. But now that 6.x is decent, I'm taking a serious stab at this and just can't figure it out. I followed this howto: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html I have a /tftpboot/pxeboot file compiled from /usr/src/sys/boot and I can get the client machine booting from the server, and it gets through the install somewhat, making the filesystems, but as soon as it tries to install packages (extracting all requested distributions), it can't get past it. The NIC light is lit up solid, and if I turn on debugging on mountd on the NFS server, I can see its mounting /cdrom via NFS over and over. I have the first CDROM mounted on the server as /cdrom, and in NFS exports I am exporting it, and in my install.cfg I have nfs=10.0.0.1:/cdrom, so this all SHOULD work, it just isn't. So if this is known to be broken, it will be a relief and I'll just wait until its working, but if it should work, I could sure use some tips, or pointers to an updated walkthrough, all the docs I can find were written for 4.x. So most of all I'm just asking if anyone is able to pxeboot and do jumpstart installs with FreeBSD 6, so that I know at least that it is not broken, then its just a matter of figuring it out. I get the idea that its not working. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PXE boot jumpstarting
Rat wrote: Does PXE boot installing in fact work in 6.0? sysinstall has all this nice jumpstart/kickstart-like stuff in it, and I'd love to use this for deploying new servers. It does, take a look at this: http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pub/pxeboot (I know, some links are broken, I'm working on it). Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Subject ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 Fingerprint: 7F:80:96:EA:95:92:E2:23:1F:FA:0F:98:92:C2:CC:55:6B:9A:8C:92 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
