etherboot-developers

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: Looking in all the wrong places

[<ke...@us...>]

>Thanks.  It's Saturday morning here, and I'm about to start working on
>5.0.7 support for rom-o-matic.  I'll let you know when it's up.  I'll
>also take a look at 5.1.  Let's see how it goes.

I don't think 5.1.2rc1 needs to be put on rom-o-matic. It offers nothing
beyond 5.0.7rc2 until someone has written a multicast server and even
then only for one model of NIC.

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: [Etherboot-users] Looking in all the wrong places

[<ke...@us...>]

>I like the idea.
>
>In LTSP we always depend on a filename being sent.

Eric, you're a genius. (Sound of me hitting side of head muttering why
didn't I think of that, like when Marty explained rom-o-matic.)

Ok, this will be the 5.0.7 behaviour:

No server IP (all zeros) -> ignore offer
No filename and DEFAULT_BOOTFILE not defined -> ignore offer

Anybody who wants the fallback filename will have to edit etherboot.h
and uncomment the #define.

But Jim, you're still going to have to fix the dhcpclient in the LTSP
initrd.

Marty, give me a sec to put up the new tarball.

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: [Etherboot-users] Looking in all the wrong places

[<ja...@Mc...>]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Ken Yap wrote:

> 
> Eric, you're a genius. (Sound of me hitting side of head muttering why
> didn't I think of that, like when Marty explained rom-o-matic.)
> 
> No server IP (all zeros) -> ignore offer
> No filename and DEFAULT_BOOTFILE not defined -> ignore offer
> 
> But Jim, you're still going to have to fix the dhcpclient in the LTSP
> initrd.

Yes, I know.  I wonder if eric knows a way to squeeze more hours
into a day, so I can do all the things that I need to do. :)

Jim.

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: [Etherboot-users] Looking in all the wrong places

[Eric W B. <ebi...@ln...>]

<ja...@Mc...> writes:

> On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Ken Yap wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Eric, you're a genius. (Sound of me hitting side of head muttering why
> > didn't I think of that, like when Marty explained rom-o-matic.)

Does any have some ice so I can keep all of these comments
from going to my head and swelling it up?

> > No server IP (all zeros) -> ignore offer
> > No filename and DEFAULT_BOOTFILE not defined -> ignore offer
> > 
> > But Jim, you're still going to have to fix the dhcpclient in the LTSP
> > initrd.
> 
> Yes, I know.  I wonder if eric knows a way to squeeze more hours
> into a day, so I can do all the things that I need to do. :)

I do know that dhclient has the ability to do interesting filtering
of dhcp requests.  So you can ignore selected servers.

Eric

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: [Etherboot-users] Looking in all the wrong places

[<ke...@us...>]

>Ok, this will be the 5.0.7 behaviour:
>
>No server IP (all zeros) -> ignore offer
>No filename and DEFAULT_BOOTFILE not defined -> ignore offer
>
>Anybody who wants the fallback filename will have to edit etherboot.h
>and uncomment the #define.

Ok, done. CVS has been updated for both 5.0 and 5.1. Marty, the tarball
is in the top directory of the website. No PHP changes are needed, the
DEFAULT_BOOTFILE define was not in Config anyway.

[Etherboot-developers] Re: Looking in all the wrong places

[Marty C. <ma...@et...>]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:33:53 +1000 Ken Yap
<ke...@us...> wrote:
>Ok, done. CVS has been updated for both 5.0 and 5.1. Marty, the tarball
>is in the top directory of the website. No PHP changes are needed, the
>DEFAULT_BOOTFILE define was not in Config anyway.

Thanks.  It's Saturday morning here, and I'm about to start working on
5.0.7 support for rom-o-matic.  I'll let you know when it's up.  I'll
also take a look at 5.1.  Let's see how it goes.

Marty

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Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: Looking in all the wrong places

[Marty C. <ma...@et...>]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:58:10 +1000 Ken Yap
<ke...@us...> wrote:
>I don't think 5.1.2rc1 needs to be put on rom-o-matic. It offers nothing
>beyond 5.0.7rc2 until someone has written a multicast server and even
>then only for one model of NIC.

OK.  I'll focus on 5.0.7rc2.  I like the idea about Etherboot being more
selective about which DHCP servers it responds to, btw.  There's been a
ton of great work going on, and it's nice to see people enjoying
themselves while hacking.  It will be fun to demo at LinuxWorld SF next
month.  I hope I can get the wireless stuff to work so we can show that
as well.  Maybe I can get Michael Brown to help me if I get stuck ;)

Marty

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    Try: http://rom-o-matic.net/ to make Etherboot images instantly.

   Name: Marty Connor
US Mail: Entity Cyber, Inc.; P.O. Box 391827; 
         Cambridge, MA 02139; USA
  Voice: (617) 491-6935; Fax: (617) 491-7046 
  Email: ma...@et...
    Web: http://www.etherboot.org/