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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 18:21:43 +0300
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting 
Message-ID:  <E1780b1-000FuD-00@cse.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: Message from David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>  of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:25:38 PDT." <20020424192538.A96594@hub.freebsd.org> 

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> What do you think about doing a little more polishing and rolling a new
> set of patches taking this /etc/rc.conf option into account?  Your kernel
> env dhcp variables are really good.

i was thinking of adding something like this to dhcp:

	option FBSD.rc-conf "132.65.16.100:/c/conf/rc.conf.foo";

and bootp can then tftp/nfs the file and parse it, making the result available 
via kenv
and there is no real problem to concatenate serveral conf files - just comming 
up
with a nice/simple syntax :-)

as a proof of concept, there is no major problem to tftp this, but only from 
one/initial
host, to make it realy flexible there is one major obstacle, the stand alone 
io has to be
modified/augmented/complicated to have more than one socket. so,
	1- is there a market for this?
	2- is this a bad idea?
	3- any work done already? 

danny



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