On Apr 25, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Frank van der Linden wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 01:28:26PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
Can someone give me some pointers on doing a netboot install? My
machine supports PXE boot and I've looked at some of the netboot
documentation at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
You need to look at the i386 specific parts of those pages, they all
apply to the amd64 port as well (just replace i386 with amd64
anywhere).
You need to:
* Set up dhcpd on a machine on your network. This is
described on that webpage as well as the i386 pxeboot(8)
manpage.
* Set up tftpd on the same, point it at your netboot
directory.
* Put the pxeboot_ia32.bin file (from the base.tgz file on
the ISO image, in ./usr/mdec) in the netboot directory.
* Put the amd64 INSTALL kernel in the netboot directory
you configured. Put it there as "netbsd", uncompressed. If
the ISO image was a full release, the INSTALL kernel should be
present in amd64/binary/kernel/
* Boot the kernel (make sure PXE boot is configured in the boot
devices in the BIOS), and continue with the installation as
if you booted from CD or floppy.
I'm trying this pxe boot. I can get the netbsd pxe loader, but I can't
get it to load the amd64 kernel (named netbsd) in the netboot
directory. It keeps trying to connect via NFS.
ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
option domain-name "example.com";
option routers 10.0.0.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1;
server-name "DHCPserver";
server-identifier 10.0.0.1;
default-lease-time 120;
max-lease-time 120;
host eshara {
hardware ethernet 00:50:45:5b:8f:18;
fixed-address 10.0.0.10;
option host-name "eshara";
if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) =
"PXEClient" {
filename "pxeboot_ia32.bin";
} elsif filename = "tftp" {
filename "tftp:netbsd";
}
}
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
# filename "pxeboot";
range 10.0.0.10 10.0.0.254;
Good luck,
- Frank
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