[Etherboot-developers] Questions

[Howard Y. <How...@au...>]

Hello again,

Firstly,
I was looking at the how to write a driver for etherboot because I have a netvin (I think NV401 but not sure) 16bit PCMCIA card and wondered if anyone knows anything about support.

Secondly,

Would it be possible (as apposed to 'near impossible') to boot with one way communications.

So,

1)Server On
Thread1
-Loop
Send out part 1A
Send out part ..
Send out part ..
Send out part 1Z
Send out part 2A
Send out part ..
Send out part ..
Send out part 2Z
Thread2
-Loop
Different network interface, wait for connections on some network i.e. the internet. Not an active part of Thread1 inside of loop.
Update settings for Thread1 based on feedback.

2)PC On,
Etherboot disk loads,
Get Part Loop entered,
Etherboot starts receiving,
Waiting for Part 'A' ignore rest (print ignoring X,... and so on to show working)
Up to about 15 minutes later finally server is back at 'A', Got part 'A'
Loading part 'A' (differs depending on hardware),

In the case I am thinking of I want to use a DVB card, DVB-S as it happens to boot my pc via satellite download of a sort that works like a tv channel, i.e. like sat@once for example. It is only possible to communicate in one direction and everything is sent in bursts, which may be an issue.
This is just an easy way for me to send out a distribution to a large number of people in a very short space of time.

So if I can load etherboot for the DVB card and have it wait ignoring the server until it sees 1A or 2A (stable or testing) it would be useful.

Thanks

Howard

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