How to netboot NetBSD-5/i386
Martijn van Buul <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:02:41 +0000 (UTC)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general |
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| Organization | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi It used to be so simple - if you have a system that will netboot, all you need to do to install NetBSD is feed it the INSTALL kernel via a PXE boot, and life is well. Sadly, with the new bootstrap procedure in netbsd-5, this is no longer the case. There is no INSTALL kernel anymore, it's just a GENERIC kernel with a kernel module loaded afterwards, and try as I might, I haven't been able to make this work over PXE. So, how does netbooting an installation kernel work these days? I want to install NetBSD on my netbook; http://www.netbsd.org/ports/i386/netbook.html suggests to netboot, but this seems to be no longer applicable. I don't have a USB CD-ROM drive to my disposal, and I wasn't planning on buying one just to in stall NetBSD ;) I do have a spare USB key, but that seems to be an even bigger can of worms. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Martijn -- Martijn van Buul - [email protected]