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On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:13 -0700, Jerry Williams wrote:
> Could someone please add pxelinux.0 to /images/pxeboot/?
>
> I am not sure how often it changes, but it is kind of a pain to get it
out
> of syslinux.
>
> Is pxelinux.0 a generic thing or does it have to match everything else?
It's just in the syslinux package and thus changes as often as syslinux.
Sticking it in the dir doesn't make much sense as we don't put, eg, a
tftp server there. Or anything else along those lines.
But you do need all 3 files vmlinuz, initrd.img, & pxelinux.0
The vmlinuz & initrd.img aren't any good without pxelinux.0.
Or am I not understanding something?
It's just kind of a pain to run:
rpm2cpio syslinux-3.31-2.i386.rpm |cpio -iv --make-directories
./usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0
Why don't you just make people do mount -o loop boot.iso /media and copy off
vmlinuz and initrd.img then? Why have pxeboot?
> Also is there a reason that stage2.img couldn't just be loaded from the
tftp
> server in the first place instead of having to use NFS, ftp, or http?
>
> Especially if you are just doing a rescue?
70 megs is a lot to download via tftp. Plus, it then has to be in
memory which isn't the case for NFS
Jeremy
I didn't realize that tftp put everything into memory.
Sounds like a good reason to me to not do that.
Thanks!