The problem is, that FreeBSD doesn't use pxelinux to boot - it has its
own PXE-bootloader.
Then, the equivalent of the ks.cfg file goes into the compressed
msfroot filesystem image, which would be a major pain to adapt.
The seperately bootloader itself would not be a show stopper -- there is
already some code there to supply elilo and alternate config files as
opposed to syslinux.
The ks.cfg problem, however would be annoying... however that doesn't
sound that far off from what koan does with initrd's to get around DHCP
timeouts. One potential solution would be to
try to make a ks.cfg equivalent that includes the rest of the
"kickstart" contents based on the result of a CGI script, so you only
have to generate the initrd once. That's
ugly though.
The problem with generating all variances server side (which is why
cobbler doesn't do it server side) for PXE setups (as opposed to
reinstalls) is that you end up generating an initrd for every profile/system
and that takes up a lot of space ... more importantly, it's just a slow
thing to do.
It also likes to work via FTP only (all the example scripts have NFS
commented out and setup FTP instead - as if everybody had tried and
then settled for the obvious.
I must look at that at some point - there's a howto about converting a
FreeBSD-ISO for PXE-booting with pxelinux here:
http://phaq.phunsites.net/?s=pxe
Fun...
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