Subject: Re: pbsdboot booting compressed images; pbsdboot for ce1.0?
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 06/18/2000 14:33:37
At 10:25 PM 6/17/2000 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I've got a wish for pbsdboot: it would be very nice to be able to boot
>compressed images. Downloading boot image over serial takes 20 minutes
>for me... Alternatively, if someone has gunzip for ce, it would be
>pretty much equivalent.
While we have our wishlist out, I've for pbsdboot to be able to grab the
default image for diskless clients via dhcp/nfs. A lot of times i want
to run diskless and this would mean i wouldn't have to copy the image
twice.
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