[syslinux] Vesa menu option suggestion

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Sep 27 15:10:37 PDT 2006


Keith Schincke wrote:
> How about two help options?
>     1) short multi-line help descriptions included in the config file
>     2) longer help files included on the boot CD or downloaded.
> 
> This would allow users to use help files with the knowledge that they 
> would have to be downloaded in a PXE environment.
> The admin would weigh off download speed with the amount of text wanted.
> 

Of course, thinking about it, it might not be so bad to request the 
files on demand as opposed to all at once.  On the other hand, do the 
admins really want to have a scattered file for every single option?

	-hpa




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