[syslinux] tftp replacment
Geert Stappers
stappers at stappers.nl
Mon Jul 21 09:58:17 PDT 2008
Op 21-07-2008 om 17:39 schreef Doron Fediuk:
> Hi all,
> I have a running network boot setup using opensuse 11.0.
> Recently we found that in some remote segments, downloading the initrd and
> vmlinuz takes a long time.
>
> My question is, weather it's possible to replace tftp with some other protocol
> such as HTTP or similar ? This may be done by the pxelinux client after it's
> been loaded using the standard tftp. In this way both initrd and vmlinuz will
> be downloaded faster.
Yes, that is possible. You need version 3.70
> Thanks !
> Doron
>
> P.S.
> I saw something about gPXE, but couldn't find proper documentation.
It is gpxelinux.0 that you are looking for.
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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