Subject: Re: PXE boot support
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/16/2002 16:33:19
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> Folks...
> 
> Last night I committed support for network booting PXE-capable i386
> systems.  You can do standard NFS-root file systems using this with
> no special PXE-specific DHCP server configuration parameters.
> 
> Right now, only loading the kernel from NFS really works properly.  I'm
> going to make some improvements to libsa to make it possible to use TFTP
> more effectively.  I'll also write up some documentation as soon as I
> work out all the DHCP server vendor extension configury magic to use TFTP
> to load the kernel (useful for mass-installs or embedded targets).

cool,

thanks