[syslinux] pxelinux feature request
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 3 18:00:30 PST 2005
Alexander Heinz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have outlined a proposal for a new feature of pxelinux in
> http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2004-December/004360.html (see
> the last couple of sentences) but nobody has commented it, so I am
> asking again:
>
> Imagine a company with a lot of departments and where network booting is
> widely used. Each department has different needs when it comes to
> operating systems.
> Because things change very often, it would be a nightmare for a single
> administrator to update the pxelinux configuration file.
> The administrator should be able to delegate the task of maintainung the
> configuration file to the departments:
> The master configuration file created by the administrator only provides
> a basic set of boot images and each department should be able to add new
> ones.
Have you considered autogenerating these from templates?
> Therefore I think that a LOADCONFIG command would be useful for pxelinux.
>
> Here is an expample:
> pxelinux.cfg/default
> LABEL load_new_config
> LOADCONFIG 192.168.0.1::my_new_config
>
> when load_new_config is selected pxelinux downloads the file
> "my_new_config" from the TFTP server with the IP 192.168.0.1 and uses it
> as its configuration file.
>
> Comments? Good or bad idea (and why)?
Any reason you can't specify different config files via DHCP options
and/or links on your TFTP server?
-hpa
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