From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 30 14:54:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3249D37B71A for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f2UMrPY05575; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:53:25 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200103302253.f2UMrPY05575@earth.backplane.com> To: Falco Cc: Mathew KANNER , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.diskless{1,2} files References: <3AC4C496.60861EB6@fokus.gmd.de> <20010330125701.C17585@cs.mcgill.ca> <3AC4EFD9.585ECC77@fokus.gmd.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> :> On Mar 30, Falco Krepel wrote: :> > I have implemented good ideas from Mike Smith in my :> > rc.diskless{1,2} files and make some other changes: :> :> Hi, :> I don't have access to hardware to test diskless but have a :> few suggestions from looking at proposal. :> :> BOOTP probably isn't how most people are going to do it, :> instead they will be using PXE, perhaps we should retire the reference :> to BOOTP in the following. : :Yes. I also using PXE for diskless operation. BOOTP is not mutually exclusive to PXE. PXE is just a way to load the kernel up. Once the kernel is running, it uses BOOTP to get its NFS mounts, swap, etc... -- P.S. To anyone who wants to cleanup the rc.diskless files, please be my guest! I wrote them originally and they worked 'ok', but then some people mangled them and ever since they haven't worked right. I don't have time to clean them up myself. They could use a complete rewriting, IMHO. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message