Netbooting and Diskless Workstations with FreeBSD

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."

Diskless boot for OpenBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Great stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Funny that this topic comes along...

[CoolVibe]

On the dragonflybsd mailing lists [dragonflybsd.org] there's a big thread about using PXEboot to netboot the new installer [bsdinstaller.org] 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.