FAI Support for FreeBSD

[Jason Helfman]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:55:42PM +0100, Thomas Lange thus spake:
>>>>>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:42:53 -0800, Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com> said:
>
>    >> - Is the tool parted available?
>    > No.
>Oh, that's bad. Our partinioning tool depends on parted, and rewriting
>it is not possible.
>
>    > bsdlabel
>    > fdisk
>    > newfs
>If BSD fdisk is the same as for Linux, we can use our old tool, which
>works with fdisk.
>
>    > You can use "jails" for this. It is native to the FreeBSD OS.
>    > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails.html
>OK.
>
>    >> - Is there something similar to aufs-modules?
>    > I'm told this is a "unionfs," but I am not sure.
>    > Here is some information I found on this assumption.
>    > http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/
>Unionfs is also fine.
>
>    > pkg_add can add packages, and resolves dependencies.
>That will be the easiest part.
>
>
>    >> First, the major difficult part will be creating the nfsroot and
>    >> booting and mounting a file system via NFS. I guess this is much different to Linux.
>    > I'll help as much as I can :)
>Since I do not have access to a BSD system, someone else has to do the
>main work. I can only help if there are any questions convering FAI.
>I also guess, it's possible but not that easy to get FAI running for
>BSD. First, try to create the nfsroot and try to boot a system via PXE
>using the nfsroot.

Can you expand on "create the nfsroot," and what this is and what it should
contain?

>
>--
>regards Thomas
>

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Jason Helfman