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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:26:59 +0000 (UTC)
From:      omestre <omestre@freeshell.org>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting a machine over the network without pxe.
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.56.0309111419210.25426@sdf.lonestar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030910055621.GP39788@funkthat.com>
References:  <20030902205418.GB30374@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030910055621.GP39788@funkthat.com>

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote:


> boot.netif.hostname already exists as kern.hostname.  Why create yet
> another knob for the same value?
 I have used the structures that already exists.. for bootp or
pxe purposes...
 Maybe you did not understand my patch (terrible english :), but I'm using
the loader.conf file to set that variables, and that ones (for bootp/pxe)
have a pattern, i think that follow it is nice. The variables are (i
guess) for autoconfiguration task (in boot)... So boot.netif.hostname is
not the same as kern.hostname.
 But this decision for me is irrelevant, the devel man will decide what is
better. :))
 Thansk for your motivation.

 []'s


>
> Why don't you make it parse nfsroot.* from vfs.root.mountfrom?  That way
> you can specify it as nfs:host:/path.
>
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>
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