Hi all!
I'm new in these parts, but not new to *nix. I'm trying to upgrade a
system with FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.2.
I've gotten the pxeboot to work, but somehow the network interface isn't
seen by the installer.
loader.rc:
===
include /boot/loader.4th
include /boot/beastie.4th
\ Reads and
If you're going to setup a netbooting server (congrats!), why are you
trying to limit yourself to what seems to be the bootonly CD?
There are some people who complain about broadcom cards, in the fact
that they're buggy support/nonexistant support. Maybe your NIC
chipset is one of those.
The
Tim Judd wrote:
If you're going to setup a netbooting server (congrats!), why are you
trying to limit yourself to what seems to be the bootonly CD?
Uh... 'cause I don't know any better? :) Point me to docs so I can do
better!
There are some people who complain about broadcom cards, in the
Bruce Ferrell wrote:
Hi all!
I'm new in these parts, but not new to *nix. I'm trying to upgrade a
system with FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.2.
I've gotten the pxeboot to work, but somehow the network interface isn't
seen by the installer.
loader.rc:
===
include /boot/loader.4th
include
As a very brief instruction to setup a single-PC diskless boot
(because of the pid files, mostly. But files in /etc are also the
same concern) do the following on your NFS exported filesystems..
cd /path/to/installation/medium
cd 7.2-RELEASE/kernels
cat generic.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - -C
