Hi there,
Installing 7.0 via PXE has a slight problem that is easily worked around. The

file /boot/mfsroot.gz on the installation media needs to be unzipped to make

PXE boot via tftp/nfs work. Otherwise the loader ultimately complains that it

cant find the device to boot from. For example, if you have the installation

media living at /usr/pxe/nfs/ on the PXE server, then do:
gzip -d /usr/pxe/nfs/boot/mfsroot.gz
After doing this it now loads the kernel and starts the installation procedure

as expected. Someone more knowledgeable than me might want to let whoever needs

to know about this.
Apart from that, it looks great, the work is appreciated, thanks for the new

release :-)
Cheers, Tim.
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I documented this in my "how to get FreeBSD to install via PXE and

serial console" document:
http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html
I opened a PR at the time of this discovery as well:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120127
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I've had problems with other files fetched over NFS in the past. In

theory (at least that's what a tcpdump says), it should be possible to

provide all files gzipped, and even split the files in smaller chunks.

Files are tried in this order:
boot/loader.rc.split

boot/loader.rc.gz.split

boot/loader.rc.gz

boot/loader.rc
However, I only got the plain files to work reliably.
Erik

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