On 20 November 2011 19:35, Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> wrote: >> Greg Sutcliffe <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Indeed, I'm looking into gPXE to boot from an http-served iso. >> > Hopefully that will scale better... >> >> I don't know what you intend to achieve but you cannot do random seeks over >> http, so it will still download the entire iso file. >> Have a good look at archiso, maybe it has some optimizations for pxe.
Indeed, but tftp has limitations that http does not, and is (from what I've read) generally faster than tftp - so even though it downloads the entire file, it should be faster. > well, apparently you can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_serving > still, i wonder how you would actually go about it in practice. and what kind > of latencies to expect. Oh, that's interesting. Not what I was trying to achieve, but I might have a play once I've got something basic working. I'll definitely take a closer look at archiso once I've understood the basics. If a simple tftp- or http-served iso, plus aif script, works then I'll have a baseline to compare with.
