On Tuesday 03 May 2005 06:37 pm, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > El Miércoles, 4 de Mayo de 2005 00:26, Marc Olzheim escribió: > > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:26:34PM +0200, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > > > Now, remembering a thread in -stable, and make a whish for the > > > forthcomming FreeBSD-6. > > > > > > I think that the actual release build may be easy tweak to produce > > > a populated /tftpboot directory ready for pxe tftp installs. (a > > > tftp enabled pxeboot, a mfs rootfs based con boot_crunch ...). > > > > > > If this can be put in a tarball like tftpinstall.tar.gz in the ftp > > > area, test of snapshots, betas, RCs, and so on will be done via > > > bootp/tftp boots. > > > > Erhm... All you need is to mount the iso on your tftproot dir and > > boot from it with console=comconsole... > > And download the full CD and cope with some glitchs. Loock for the > thread on -stable. > > Right now, we do floppies, a FTP distribution and some isos. > > I only pointing that make release may be tweak to produce a some megs > tarball that you can expand on tftpboot. > > If we have the boot_crunch done and the root mfs, this additional target > can't be too complex. > > And it's easy to test that 'go floppies'. You can just use the contents of the bootonly ISO which is much smaller than the full CD. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri Jun 17 2005 - 17:20:44 UTC
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