On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:18:20PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 December 2002 at 20:45:33 -0500, Black Dragon wrote:
> > I need to set up a tftp server to do an IRIX installation, and because
> > I can't mount the installation cds on FreeBSD, I'm going to have to
> > install Linux on a spare machine. Bummer. :-(
>
> No, you don't need XFS to net boot. I spent a lot of time netbooting
> Linux from a FreeBSD system, and I didn't use ext2fs for that.
Ack! I'm losing my mind. :-\
I meant to ask about EFS (Extent filesystem), which is what is used on
SGI distribution cds. I can't mount EFS cds on FreeBSD, therefore I can't
net-boot IRIX from it, and have to fall back to Linux.
Sorry about the confusion.
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