[syslinux] constants and line continuation

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/09/2010 06:24 PM, Miller, Shao wrote:
> Good day Warren,
> 
> In regards to your question concerning a constant prefix which is
> prepended to filenames in your PXELINUX config-file:
> 
> Are you familiar with DHCP options 209 and 210?  As documented in
> syslinux/doc/rfc5071.txt, you could potentially make good use of these.
> If you set 210 to:
> 
> http://webserver/
> 
> Then any relative file paths found in any config-files will be fetched
> via that prefix.  It should be clear that you are using gPXE, since your
> example was expecting to use HTTP.  In that case, you can set DHCP
> options from a gPXE script or from its CLI.
> 
> Simply search the Internet for "gpxe option 210".
> 

Actually it looked more as if he was trying to specify the location of
the next stage, usually an installer of some sort.

	-hpa


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