Please put pxelinux.0 in /images/pxeboot/

[Jerry Williams]

> -----Original Message-----
> On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:13 -0700, Jerry Williams wrote:
> > Could someone please add pxelinux.0 to /images/pxeboot/?
> >
> > I am not sure how often it changes, but it is kind of a pain to get it
> out
> > of syslinux.
> >
> > Is pxelinux.0 a generic thing or does it have to match everything else?
> 
> It's just in the syslinux package and thus changes as often as syslinux.
> Sticking it in the dir doesn't make much sense as we don't put, eg, a
> tftp server there.  Or anything else along those lines.

But you do need all 3 files vmlinuz, initrd.img, & pxelinux.0
The vmlinuz & initrd.img aren't any good without pxelinux.0.
Or am I not understanding something?

It's just kind of a pain to run:
rpm2cpio syslinux-3.31-2.i386.rpm |cpio -iv --make-directories
./usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0

Why don't you just make people do mount -o loop boot.iso /media and copy off
vmlinuz and initrd.img then?  Why have pxeboot?

> 
> > Also is there a reason that stage2.img couldn't just be loaded from the
> tftp
> > server in the first place instead of having to use NFS, ftp, or http?
> >
> > Especially if you are just doing a rescue?
> 
> 70 megs is a lot to download via tftp.  Plus, it then has to be in
> memory which isn't the case for NFS
> 
> Jeremy

I didn't realize that tftp put everything into memory.
Sounds like a good reason to me to not do that.
Thanks!