FreeBSD 9.X network installation using PXE+TFTP (not NFS) !

[amine tay]

Hi ,
Thank you for your replies.
Actually I can't use NFS, because in my automated os deployment solution,
only TFTP is used to deploy (Redhat, CentOS...) and I am trying to
implement freebsd to that automated deployment.




2014-03-07 12:33 GMT+01:00 Chad J. Milios <milios at ccsys.com>:

> 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.
>