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Netbooting and Diskless Workstations with FreeBSD

Posted by michael on from the keeping-the-users-from-messing-things-up dept.

sootman writes "O'Reilly's ONLamp site has a neat two-part series on building a netboot server and diskless workstations with FreeBSD. Nothing too earthshaking but it's always an interesting topic and it's nice to see a new writeup on it every so often."

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  1. Diskless boot for OpenBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is also this for OpenBSD. It is intended for flash booting, but with PXE it can be used to boot diskless systems too.

  2. Re:Great stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    They had to call it "lamp" to appeal to the masses. Then they realized that to attract competent users as well, they had to host and maintain a rich BSD section.

    Jeez... you bothered to create fake accounts? Trolly you *are* a freak!.. :-O

  3. Funny that this topic comes along... by CoolVibe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    On the dragonflybsd mailing lists there's a big thread about using PXEboot to netboot the new installer so machines without spindles or floppies can install dragonflybsd. Lots of info on how to set up DHCP for booting pxe-enabled machines. Might also be worth checking out.