Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 06:33:54 -0500 From: "Chad J. Milios" <milios@ccsys.com> To: amine tay <amine.tay91@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.X network installation using PXE+TFTP (not NFS) ! Message-ID: <5319AEA2.2030402@ccsys.com> In-Reply-To: <CAMMGsZ%2BBOpLowveVLOoGZqTNva1o%2BiHXwu28dW1X-Uf%2BnG476w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMMGsZ%2BBOpLowveVLOoGZqTNva1o%2BiHXwu28dW1X-Uf%2BnG476w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/7/2014 5:36 AM, amine tay wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm trying to perform a FreeBSD 9.X network installation using PXE+TFTP > (not NFS) ! > The problem using NFS is the need to specify the root-path in the dhcp > conf, therefore we can't deploy multiple releases or different images of > freebsd. > > So to enable the tftp instead of NFS we have to edit make.conf with these > lines > LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES > LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT=NO > and rebuild the pxeboot file > > 1st question is : Is this modification going to allow the install of > differents freebsd images? > > Note that I'm using an automated os deployement solution , and I am using > mac-adresses to deploy freebsd depending on policies, so for exemple two > clients with different mac-adresses will have two diffrents freebsd images. > > Thanks in advance for your help ! > Can't one already control this similarly to what you describe by using NFS and the DHCP server (dhcpd.conf for example)? Is there a constraint that you have limited control of the DHCP server? Based on my understanding of your question, I have done what you are trying to do using vanilla pxeboot and ports/net/isc-dhcp42-server.
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