From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 17:48:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E79E37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C3243EA9 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:48:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DA6D451996; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:18:20 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:18:20 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Black Dragon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFS Message-ID: <20021218014820.GE12296@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021218010505.GA8317@roadrage.myip.org> <20021218011127.GA12296@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021218014533.GA9126@roadrage.myip.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021218014533.GA9126@roadrage.myip.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 17 December 2002 at 20:45:33 -0500, Black Dragon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:41:27AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 17 December 2002 at 20:05:05 -0500, Black Dragon wrote: >>> After a bit of Googling and a search of the list archives, have I >>> correctly come to the conclusion that there isn't any, as of yet, >>> support for XFS in FreeBSD? >> >> Yes. > > Thank you for the prompt reply. > > I need to set up a tftp server to do an IRIX installation, and because > I can't mount the installation cds on FreeBSD, I'm going to have to > install Linux on a spare machine. Bummer. :-( No, you don't need XFS to net boot. I spent a lot of time netbooting Linux from a FreeBSD system, and I didn't use ext2fs for that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message