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> > But I'll admit to not having gathered the data on that one, so I'll
> > give it a closer look.  If I PXE or etherboot, how would the kernel
> > environment get populated then?

i use a modified bootp that palces all the dhcp tags in the kernel environment

see 
	ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/diskless-boot/
or
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61239
danny