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To: amine tay <amine.tay91@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.X network installation using PXE+TFTP (not NFS) !
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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.