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Old 5th March 2014
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Originally Posted by chessmaster View Post
Hey everyone. I'm a neophyte that is trying to install OpenBSD from my remote gentoo server. Is it possible to have my bsd.rd and pxeboot in a remote location and boot my LAN from it? I have asked in the gentoo forums and mailing list with no response.(Guess because I'm trying to install OpenBSD)
One might ask the Slackware forum, not that they would respond either because the question is about OpenBSD, but they might have given you pointers.

After booting up with a Slackware install DVD one can start up a PXE server on the local network and it will let you install Slackware to any machine on the local network using PXE. (google "Slackware pxesetup script")

The PXE server it uses is called Dnsmasq which is also a TFTP and DHCP server as well.

It has a nice feature "dhcp-proxy" which allows it to act as a middle man for the main network router dhcp server.

http://dnsmasq.org/

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq...smasq-man.html

Using Dnsmasq, one could serve up any boot image such as the OpenBSD bsd.rd.
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