[nycbug-talk] PXEBoot NetBSD

[Anthony Sofia]

Pete, I've done this before to install on a thinkpad. Just get the 
boot-big.fs and get the kernel image out of it. Name the file netbsd 
and copy it into the nfsroot you specified in dhcpd. I also copied 
the /usr/mdec/boot.net into the nfsroot for some reason... (Sorry I 
did this many months ago and took no notes).

Hopefully this helps you out. 

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:36:03AM -0800, pete wright said:
>Ok I've been hacking on getting my soekris boxen running NetBSD via
>pxebooting.  The only doc I've found on the net is in relation to
>pxebooting --> mounting root via NFS.  Ideally i'd like to do
>pxeboot-->install.  Has anyone here done something similiar.  Here's
>the main doc i've been following:
>
>http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
>
>
>I can get tftp to dole out the PXE image, but then I believe it
>expects a NetBSD kernel and root filesystem to boot.  I am more
>familiar with doing this on OpenBSD where they have a prebuild pxe
>install image available.  Am I missing something obvious here, or
>should I just go with NetBooting a base system then dd'ing it to my
>Flash drive?

Anthony Sofia (anthony at dryhump.net)
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