From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 15 8:21:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cse.cs.huji.ac.il (cse.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B770E37B404; Wed, 15 May 2002 08:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32] ident=danny) by cse.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1780b1-000FuD-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 18:21:43 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew Gordon Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting In-Reply-To: Message from David O'Brien of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:25:38 PDT." <20020424192538.A96594@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:21:43 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message