[syslinux] booting FreeBSD

[Eli Stair]

Partially OT:

Did you just put the ISO data into a floppy/HD image, or find a way to 
manipulate the ISO so it will boot PXE?

/eli

Shaun Reitan wrote:
> It can be done, the problem with BSD is that I have been unable to find 
> pxe images and all the howto's out their talk about building this 
> extravagant image with NFS/Rsync and whatever else.  My images give me 
> the ability to boot so that I can install the system via ftp/http not 
> sure if that's what your looking for or not?  With FreeBSD 4.x releases 
> theirs a image called boot.flp.  You can boot this using memdisk and 
> initrd=boot.flp
> 
> With the 5.x tree the boot.flp image for whatever reason was shrunk from 
> the 2.88 size to 1.4 and now requires a additional disk.  They have a 
> bootonly iso, I was able to convert this ISO so that I could boot it 
> with memdisk. If you want the image for 5.4 let me know, it's about 25 
> MB and it could actually be a lot smaller I just haven't shrunk it yet.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Shaun Reitan
> CTO
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Girsch" <bg at isppro.de>
> To: <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:31 PM
> Subject: [syslinux] booting FreeBSD
> 
> 
>> Hi
>> just a little question. Can I boot FreeBSD over network with pxelinux ?
>>
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