PXE Booting with an NFS root file system

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> A few years ago, I needed to set up a PXE boot with NFS root file
>> system for FreeBSD.  I found
>> the FreeBSD docs for setting this up scattered all over the place, and it
>> took me a while to figure everything out how to set up
>> all the individual pieces, debug it, and get things working.
>> 
>> I captured my notes in this text file:
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/pxe/freebsd-pxe.txt
>> 
>> I would like to contribute this back to the FreeBSD Documentation project 
>> as
>> a new section of the FreeBSD Handbook.  This is my first attempt
>> at SGML Docbook:
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/doc/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-pxe-nfs.html
>> 
>> and the patch is here:
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/nfs-pxe.diff.txt
>> 
>> 
>> Can I get some feedback on this?  If it is OK, can I commit it?  I
>> don't normally commit to src/doc.
>
> A lot of this document could point to other documentation, in particular:
>
> - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/boot.html
> - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.htmlC
> - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-inetd.html
> - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-dhcp.html
>
> 31.8.1:
>
> 5. Assuming that inetd.conf is vanilla, all you need to do is uncomment
>   the line with '^#tftp' in it.
>
> 9. mergemaster does some magic that make distribution doesn't.
>
> 31.8.3:
>
> 1. isc-dhcp30-server is no longer available in ports / as a package. It
>   should be isc-dhcp31-server, isc-dhcp41-server, or isc-dhcp42-server.
>
> 31.8.4:
>
> - Should suggest that users read loader(8).

 	Poking through the handbook some more, this might be a good home 
for the doc: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-diskless.html . 
Cheers,
-Garrett