FAI Support for FreeBSD

Jason Helfman jhelfman at e-e.com
Wed Jan 13 00:17:12 CET 2010


Perfect! Thank you.

I build our own custom ISO, and the ISO set contains the bootonly ISO, so
this is perfect.

Shouldn't be too difficult. Crossing fingers :)

I can't get to this right away, but down the line I can.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:15:38AM +0100, Thomas Lange thus spake:
>>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:05:53 -0800, Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com> said:
>
>    > Can you expand on "create the nfsroot," and what this is and what it should
>    > contain?
>It should contain a minimal set of commands that are needed to run a
>system ( the jail). Also a kernel and an initrd (does BSD have such things?) that
>can be loaded via PXE and tftp is needed. FAI needs a netboot
>environment so that the kernel and initrd mounts its root file system
>via NFS. Maybe this helps:
>
>https://www.tnpi.net/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml
>http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Installing_FreeBSD_with_netboot
>
>That's all for the beginning.
>--
>regards Thomas
>


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