Booting a machine over the network without pxe.

[omestre]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote:

Here is How i have made this task:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54383

 I guess that is exactly what you want. I have posted a
PR, and maybe the FreeBSD devel team "think about it". :)

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 Leal


> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:54:18 +0100
> From: Josef Karthauser <joe at freebsd.org>
> To: hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: Booting a machine over the network without pxe.
>
> Does anyone have any experience of booting a machine over the
> network, like pxeboot, but without running PXE on a network card.
> I imagine that it should be possible to load pxeboot at the boot:
> prompt and have everything just work.
>
> I could really do with booting my laptop into -stable, where it's only
> got -current installed.  I do however have a -stable server on site with
> plenty of disk space.  It would be really cool to remote boot of that
> via NFS mounts, etc.
>
> Joe
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