Re: [Etherboot-users] wiki! need formating help

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

Carl,

First, many thanks for your Config files!  It is always exciting and 
interesting to see how people are using Etherboot.  I hope you will add 
more comments to your Wiki pages.

After seeing your pxelinux.cfg/default file, I think it would be a good 
basis for a tutorial for people who want to use PXELINUX and Etherboot 
to make a menu-driven booting menu.  You certainly seem to have made 
good use of memdisk and floppy images.  I would be interested in an 
explanation of how you made images such as "image.img"

Regarding your quesion:

On May 29, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Ok, so how do I format config files?  I tired [=, <pre> and a few 
> other things, nothing is even close.  Here are the 2 pages in need of 
> help:
>
>     http://wiki.etherboot.org/pmwiki.php/Main/ShazPxeDefault
>     http://wiki.etherboot.org/pmwiki.php/Main/ShazDhcpdConf
>
> I am guessing the Admin (Anselm?) needs to define a style?
> Carl K

I have mostly fixed up your pages.

Rules for formatting are here:

     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/TextFormattingRules

The one you need is somewhat obscurely written:

     " ... Lines indented with one or more spaces (or tabs) are monospace
       font, and placed inside of a box with dashed-line border. "

So the first thing I did was to indent your files exactly one space to 
make them mono-spaced.  That took care of most of the formatting 
issues.

There is, however, another feature of pmwiki that causes a bit of a 
problem:

     " On some PmWiki installations, capitalized words joined together
       (e.g., WikiWords) can also be used to make references to other 
pages
       without needing the double-brackets. "

This leads to problems with lines like:

      append initrd=BootItNG/image-exe.img

in which pmWiki thinks BootItNG should be a link, and adds a "_?" after 
it.

The solution is to indent the whole file (or region) 1 space, and then 
do:

	  Here is a listing:

       [=

       line 1
       line 2
        ...
       line n

      =]

to prevent formatting of the indented text.  Note that you have to do " 
[=" on the first line of indented text.

Thanks again, Carl for the pxelinux.cfg files.  They are quite nice, 
and hopefully now you will add some comments and maybe even turn them 
into a mini-tutorial on how to use PXELINUX to do a menu, and how to 
make various image types work with Etherboot.

Regards,

Marty

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