Re: [Thinstation-general] FeatureRequest(2.2.2f

[Tobias P. <tob...@pa...>]

On 09.02.2011 22:34, Mike Eriksen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Martin Zwerschke
> <Mar...@t-...> wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>> thanks for your "ThinStation" !
>>
>> a) I would like to have a possibilty to receive
>> "thinstation.conf.network"  from a  http-Server. That seems not to be
>> possible in TS-O-Matic.
>>     
> It has been considered and I'm not sure of the current status. It's a
> bit an odd setup as you need the tftpd anyway to PXE boot, so it is
> only relevant with boot from local media. It is actually possible to
> pull the config files over scp, so if you make some noise on
> thinstation-developer you might get lucky. It shouldn't be rocket
> science to use wget to get the configs.
>
>   
i've already done it as i were pricked probably by martin on the t9n.org
forum.

its currently a proof of concept, but working as far as i see.

modified the network_files script and recompiled the busybox package to
support wget.
not a big hack, finished it in a hour.
I were wondering that the resulting busybox binary is only 6kb bigger.

if someone is intrested in testing i can publish it somehow.

I see a great potential in having a http-based config and package
storage, thats why I did it. Don't want to discuss it anymore if its
useless or not for anyone else.

greets

tobias