PXE and unattended FreeBSD Install

bsdnet · Jan 17, 2015

Is there a native way to do PXE install using FTP/HTTP instead of NFS?
Did some search and find that http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pxe.html using mfsBSD to help do so. Wonder whether netinstall has includes the same way since I saw there is some FreeBSD project which targets preboot with TCP.
How to do un-attended install using bsdinstall?

Thanks in advance.

bsdnet · Jan 18, 2015

Have done a lot of readings.
Any insights will be appreciated!

wblock@ · Jan 19, 2015

Untested: https://www.rubysecurity.org/freebsd_pxe-diskless-boot

bsdnet · Jan 19, 2015

wblock@ said:
Untested: https://www.rubysecurity.org/freebsd_pxe-diskless-boot

Thanks, this isn't what I want.
Basically, I want to check whether there is a native way to do the same like your blog.
Use FTP instead of NFS to fetch the image.

protocelt · Jan 19, 2015

The following link may at least point you in the right direction: http://louwrentius.com/freebsd-101-unattended-install-over-pxe-http-no-nfs.html

bsdnet · Jan 20, 2015

protocelt said:
The following link may at least point you in the right direction: http://louwrentius.com/freebsd-101-unattended-install-over-pxe-http-no-nfs.html

Thanks, will try this out.
BTW, I have successfully follow wblock's blog to finish one PXE install.

junovitch@ · Jan 21, 2015

I've been meaning to watch this one myself and have it bookmarked. It's a bit more than just the PXE as it's deploying with Foreman which would be from a bare metal to fully provisioned by Puppet. I'm not sure if this would be helpful since I haven't even watched it myself.

bsdnet · Jan 21, 2015

Thanks,
In fact, I watched this on TV over weekend when I searched mfsBSD via YouTube.