Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:04:33 +0100 From: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Documentation: Installing FreeBSD 7.0 via serial console and PXE Message-ID: <ygfsl0esz8e.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk> In-Reply-To: <20080129200619.GA18799@eos.sc1.parodius.com> (Jeremy Chadwick's message of "Tue\, 29 Jan 2008 12\:06\:19 -0800") References: <20080129190913.GA6104@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080129195043.GA45752@sandvine.com> <20080129200619.GA18799@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> writes: > I believe the options you're referring to are LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT and > LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT. Even if you define LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT=no, loader(8) > will still resort to using NFS. I've confirmed this on a couple > occasions by defining PXE_DEBUG=1 and looking at the output. NFS, from > what I can tell, is needed regardless because TFTP offers no way (AFAIK) > of handling directory structures. This is speculation on my part, but > the confirmation that there's no way to do a pure TFTP-based install has > been verified. I have installed FreeBSD via PXE a lot of times and managed to avoid using NFS every single time. Very brief notes about how to do it is included on this page: http://borderworlds.dk/writings/freebsd_on_toshiba_portege_r100.html -- Christian Laursen
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