Re: PXE Installation

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.
> <cut>
>
> 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

add to /etc/rc.conf:
rpcbind_enable="yes"
nfs_server_enable="yes"

reboot (or restart this services nfsd mountd)

3. populate bootdir

cd /usr/src
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installworld DESTDIR=/usr/bootdir
make distribution DESTDIR=/usr/bootdir
make installkernel DESTDIR=/usr/bootdir

4. add someting like this to your /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf

host workstation {
hardware ethernet 00:13:d4:22:69:0c;
fixed-address 192.168.1.6;
filename "pxeboot";
option root-path "192.168.1.2:/usr/workstation";
option domain-name "martenvijn.nl";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.2;
}


change the ipnumbers for your ipspace, macaddress and local config

sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd.sh restart

5. in the hostfiles in /etc/hosts and /bootdir/etc/hosts

192.168.1.6 bert
192.168.1.2 ernie

I use dns for this.

6. in /usr/bootdir/etc/rc.conf

hostname="workstation.martenvijn.nl"
rpcbind_enable="yes"
nfs_client_enable="yes"
populate_var="yes"

in /usr/bootdir/etc/fstab

192.168.1.2:/usr/bootdir / nfs rw,soft,lockd 0 0
md /var mfs rw,-s64m,-M 2 0
md /tmp mfs rw,-s64m,-M 2 0


This should be it. boot laptop and run sysinstall.

Note: This not a very secure setup,


cheers Marten



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