Re: Documentation: Installing FreeBSD 7.0 via serial console and PXE

Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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