Using FreeBSD as a JumpStart Server

A JumpStart server needs to provide the following services:

• RARP
• TFTP
• bootparams
• ICMP address mask reply
• NFS

You enable these services on FreeBSD by doing the following:

RARP

Add the following to /etc/rc.conf:

rarpd_enable="YES"
rarpd_flags="-asv"

TFTP

Uncomment the entry for tftp in /etc/inetd.conf.

bootparams

Create /etc/rc.local as a shell script (if it doesn't already exist) and add the following entry:

/usr/sbin/bootparamd -s

ICMP address mask reply

Create /etc/sysctl.conf (if it doesn't already exist) and add the following entry:

net.inet.icmp.maskrepl=1

NFS

Add the following to /etc/rc.conf:

nfs_server_enable="YES"

Either activate all of this stuff by hand or reboot to get everything to take effect. All of these daemons look at the same files (/etc/ethers, /etc/bootparams, etc.) as a Sun box would. Until FreeBSD gets Name Service Switch you will have to put everything in local files, not NIS.