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Re: Installing via USB or Netboot



2011/2/13 Antoni Villalonga <frikimaster@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install kfreebsd on a Eeepc via usb or netboot.
>
> The documentation about both processes is wrong or incomplete:
> Via usb: There is no "hd-media/boot.img.gz" as says the documentation
> [0]. So, there is any way to do it?

Yes, just dd the mini.iso instead.  It works both as USB and as
CD image.

> Via netbot: Sections 4.5.1 and 4.5.4 [1] seems to be incomplete. After
> unpack netboot.tar.gz into /srv/tftp/, I don't know what has to be the
> value of "filename" in /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf. So I try each file and
> only got some kind of response with "grub2pxe". It says: "Welcome to
> GRUB!" and just freeze instead of load installation menu.

This functionality is still incomplete, see:
http://robertmh.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/diskless-debian-gnukfreebsd-howto/

-- 
Robert Millan


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