From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 16 14:22: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.webweaving.org (fia224-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018AC37B406 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 14:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.leiden.webweaving.org (localhost.leiden.webweaving.org [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by mobile.webweaving.org (8.12.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g5GLKuqD002356 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 23:20:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Curiosity: Killed the Cat X-Huis-aan-Huis-deur-sticker: nee-nee X-Spam: no X-Passed: MX on Gandalf.WebWeaving.org Sun, 16 Jun 2002 23:20:56 +0200 (CEST) and masked X-No-Spam: Neither the receipients nor the senders email address(s) are to be used for Unsolicited (Commercial) Email without the explicit written consent of either party; as a per-message fee is incurred for inbound and outbound traffic to the originator. Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 23:20:55 +0200 (CEST) From: dirkx@covalent.net X-X-Sender: dirkx@mobile.webweaving.org To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: forth/kernel name with a variable. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG During a diskless boot (i.e. after the PXE stage); I'd like to get to load (or try to load) a configuration file which is machine specific; e.g. something along the lines of: # >> /mboot/boot/defaults/loader.conf # .... loader_conf_files="/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf /boot/loader.conf.local /boot/\\${boot.netif.ip}.conf /boot/nextboot.conf" .... where at least an attempt is made to get a machine specific file (in this case to define a kernel boot file which is specific to that machine) - as this would allow me to reduce the footprint on the boot/dhcp/tftp server considerably. Any hints ? (The above does not get substituted). Dw -- Dirk-Willem van Gulik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message