Booting a machine over the network without pxe.

[John-Mark Gurney]

omestre wrote this message on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 14:22 +0000:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
> Here is How i have made this task:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54383
> 
>  I guess that is exactly what you want. I have posted a
> PR, and maybe the FreeBSD devel team "think about it". :)

boot.netif.hostname already exists as kern.hostname.  Why create yet
another knob for the same value?

Why don't you make it parse nfsroot.* from vfs.root.mountfrom?  That way
you can specify it as nfs:host:/path.

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