PXE boot FreeBSD iso from pxelinux server

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Published on 2010-05-12T06:50:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 6:55 UTC
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I'm using FOG as a TFTP / PXE server and would like to be able to boot a FreeBSD LiveCD (specifically pfSense, but it could be any LiveCD, really); I've found HOWTOs for booting a "netboot" BSD but they all seem to use a BSD server. So:

Is it possible to PXE boot BSD from a Linux server?
Is it possible to PXE boot a BSD LiveCD?
Is it possible to PXE boot a Linux LiveCD?

My main motivation is to be able to boot small LiveCD images (e.g. < 100MB) that I may only use once and don't want to burn a physical CD for.

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