Re: [Etherboot-developers] List of NICs by popularity

[Markus G. <ma...@gu...>]

Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote:
> Could you support debian be installed from an etherboot NBI?
> Meaning... you setup a tftp/dhcp server on one debian server box and
> then - putting one rom-o-matic floppy into a client - can install from
> a netbooted kernel and a ftp.*.debian.org server? I think it's possible
> with some manual tweeking right now, but why not support right out of
> the box?

Ah, yet another incentive for getting HTTP support working on 5.2. If 
Debian's URL was hardcoded in the Etherboot image (I know, this is 
normally frowned upon), the kernel could be loaded directly from 
Debian's server. All the user needed would be a DHCP server and the 
Etherboot floppy.

I have a preliminary patch for 5.2, but there are still some bugs in the 
TCP flow control, and the code currently suffers from corruption of the 
downloaded image file. I hope, I'll have a working patch soon.


Markus