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On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:36:54PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Quentin Garnier wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:52:30AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > Do we have any docs on getting sysinst started via a PXE boot on i386?
> > >
> > > I don't have a floppy. And I don't want to boot via CD.
> > >
> > > What image is needed to be booted?
> >
> > You don't boot a floppy image, you just boot one of the installation
> > kernel you find in binary/kernel.
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> Thanks!
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> Okay, I have made the PXE boot the pxeboot_ia32.bin file. (I can't boot
> the kernel directly at first because "NBP is too big to fit in free base
> memory").
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> And I have a NFS mount setup and DHCP gives that information.
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> And it boots my netbsd (which is the gunzipped netbsd-INSTALL.gz).
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> And now I have sysinst!
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> I will document all the DHCPD, TFTPD and other configurations and steps.

Well, the netbooting how-to covers that, I guess you only need to say
that you can use that method to boot the INSTALL kernel.

As for the NFS part, I wish our bootblocks were actually able to fetch
the kernel through TFTP.  I think there might be code for this but I
haven't been able to use it in my limited testing.  Limited because I
also came to the conclusion that tftpd might be broken on -current,
but I have yet to confirm that.  At least I've seen it having a weird
behaviour.

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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