Pxe install freebsd

[lars lindgren]

the standard installation. 
Now its up and running, the problem was that took out the whole stucture from a .iso file, and the struckure did not match.. but its case solved now.


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com>
To: lars lindgren <lasse.lindgren at home.se>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 18:50:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Pxe install freebsd

On Thu, 15 May 2003, lars lindgren wrote:

> Its capable of pxebooting, (im from the linux world) hda is a 16M cf
> Hdb is a standard harddrive. User interface is a serialport, running
> @38400,8n1. NIC is a eepro100
>
> The computer is currently installed with linux, but since i have many
> computers like this one, i thought about migrating into freebsd.
>
> I guess in linuxterm's i need a kernel and a rootdisk with the install
> package. I tried the ones from the cd, it didn't give me any output on
> the serial port. (that i know workes, since before it loads the kernel i
> have to type what it should boot ...) Serial port is running @38400,8n1

the default serial console speed for FreeBSD is 9600, for starters.  The
BIOS is doing some sort of vga to serial redirection?  This sounds like
the soekris equipment, although for mine I loaded the CF with a laptop.

So exactly what are you trying to start? sysinstall?

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite at gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org


Lars Lindgren
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