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Subject: Re: how to configure freeBSD kernel to mount NFS as a root file
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Thanks
Crest
> Hi, 
> 
> How to configure freeBSD kernel to mount NFS as a root filesystem. 
> In case of Linux we will set the bootargs ( In kernel command line args,
> we 
> will give the server ip and path of file system.) 
> 
> 1) In Free BSD, make installworld  will install all the utils in DESTDIR, 
> that DESTDIR we can use as the file system. am i correct? 

Yes export $DESTDIR via NFSv3 

> 2) If my first point is correct then how to configure my kernel  DESTDIR
> as 
> a root filesytem. where to give the path of DESTDIR and DESTDIR machine IP 
> in the kernel. 

Your kernel needs to support (options NFS_ROOT). If you can't run
/boot/loader than define the rootfs in the kernel config (options
ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs\").

My questions is:
1) we are not telling the NFS server ip address in above two options. where
we will configure the server ip of NFS server in config options.


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