PXE Installation

[Danny Braniss]

> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 03:36 +0100, Karel Miklav wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 to a sub-notebook without
> > floppy or optical unit. 
> 
> > Please give me a hand, I'm playing with this for whole week.
> > 
> nice game aint it? sure of your friends is tcpdump :)
> 
> 
> steps to follow (more below), create:
> 
> 1 pxeboot
> 2 exports a nfs bootdir 
> 3 populate bootdir
> 4 config dhcpd.conf
> 5 add hosts to dns or /etc/hosts
> 6 proper config for the bootdir
> 
> 1. pxe
> 
>    mkdir /tftboot
>    cp /boot/pxeboot /tftboot/
>    change in /etc/inetd.conf (remove #)
> 
>    #tftp   dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd
>    tftpd -l -s /tftpboot
>   to
>    tftp   dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd
>    tftpd -l -s /tftpboot
> 
>    /etc/rc.d/inetd restart
> 
> 2. exports a nfs bootdir
> 
>   add this line to /etc/exports
> 
> /usr/   -maproot=0 -alldirs
> 
this should be more secure:

  /usr	 -ro -maproot=root -alldirs

...

danny