Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
