Documentation: Installing FreeBSD 7.0 via serial console and PXE

[Josh Paetzel]

On Tuesday 29 January 2008 02:07:26 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:42:54PM +0000, N.J. Mann wrote:
> > In message <20080129190913.GA6104 at eos.sc1.parodius.com>,
> >
> > on Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 at 11:09:13 Jeremy Chadwick 
(koitsu at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> > > I spent 7-8 hours yesterday working on accomplishing ${SUBJECT}, and in
> > > the process wrote a document on it.  There are scattered docs all over
> > > the Web describing how to do this, but all of them are either outdated
> > > or incorrect in some regards (no offence intended), hence what I wrote.
> > >
> > > http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html
> >
> > This is great.  However, shouldn't 192.168.1.200 be 192.168.1.100 for
> > newbox.home.lan in the "Common Paths/Terms Used" table?
>
> You're right -- thanks!  I got some other mails about similar typos,
> which I'm fixing up as the mails come in.  :-)

The problem with PXE booting/diskless/network installs/automated installs is 
that there so many different ways to go about things.  I've been kicking 
around documenting some of this myself for the last 6-12 months.   What I've 
found is my setup evolves every time I impliment it, and I've been loathe to 
write a HOWTO type thing and make people think it's the only way to do 
things, while the other extreme, a brain dump of everything I know about the 
subject is probably not useful either.

Maybe we can collaborate a bit or something.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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