Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:53:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
To: Falco <krepel@fokus.gmd.de>
Cc: Mathew KANNER <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: new rc.diskless{1,2} files
Message-ID: <200103302253.f2UMrPY05575@earth.backplane.com>
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:> On Mar 30, Falco Krepel wrote:
:> > I have implemented good ideas from Mike Smith in my
:> > rc.diskless{1,2} files and make some other changes:
:>
:> Hi,
:> I don't have access to hardware to test diskless but have a
:> few suggestions from looking at proposal.
:>
:> BOOTP probably isn't how most people are going to do it,
:> instead they will be using PXE, perhaps we should retire the reference
:> to BOOTP in the following.
:
:Yes. I also using PXE for diskless operation.
BOOTP is not mutually exclusive to PXE. PXE is just a way to
load the kernel up. Once the kernel is running, it uses
BOOTP to get its NFS mounts, swap, etc...
--
P.S. To anyone who wants to cleanup the rc.diskless files,
please be my guest! I wrote them originally and they worked
'ok', but then some people mangled them and ever since they
haven't worked right. I don't have time to clean them up
myself. They could use a complete rewriting, IMHO.
-Matt
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