[syslinux] Introducing a new com32 module : HDT

[Erwan]

Pierre-Alexandre Meyer wrote:
> On Thursday 12 March 2009 à 01:20:54PM, Gordon Schumacher wrote:
>   
>> Quick question though; can it currently (or is it even possible to) log
>> the output to a file someplace?  I'd never quite had time to work out
>> how difficult that would be...
>>     
>
> You could for instance redirect the console to a serial port.
>
>   
This is a first solution but I think it isn't the most common use case 
for users.
I think we have to face two different cases :

1: user is physically in front on the system and want to dump his 
configuration
That usually implies not having network (isolinux) or running a non 
serial capable device (laptop, desktop)
I mean by non serial capable a device that doesn't have a physical 
serial port or that users will not connect to another machine to dump 
the serial port.
In that configuration, we have to find a "local" writable device to 
store the result or print something to the physical console.

2: user is running hdt on a remote host
In that configuration, we can have usually pxelinux, gpxelinux or a 
serial capable system (server).
In such configuration, we can imagine storing file on a remote protocol 
(tftp,http) but at least from now, that requires gpxe which isn't that 
common.
I hope this situation will change quickly but we have to find a solution 
without gpxe to match a big amount of end users.

To sum up, I think the first solution that could match the bigger number 
of users is
1°) to find a local writable device to store the configuration
2° to find a way to store data using a remote protocol with/without gpxe ?

So now... let's try to find how this can be done ;o)