Subject: Re: sysinst via PXE on i386?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/05/2005 17:17:29
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> As for the NFS part, I wish our bootblocks were actually able to fetch
>> the kernel through TFTP.
>
> They can. I do it all the time. I just TFTP down kernels with RAMDISK
> roots and then I can install without ever needing NFS at all.
How do you do this?
I am using PXE. It uses TFTP for the pxeboot_ia32.bin, but if I attempt to
load a kernel instead it fails (too large I think).
Jeremy C. Reed
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