On 10/23/2012 01:01 PM, Robert Schwebel wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:48:57PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: >>> I use also pxe >> >> Yeah. I mostly use tftpboot with dhcpd dishing out a custom >> kernel (and rootfs dir) for each board based on MAC address. >> (using the bootp protocol? I can't remember which part of the >> exchange is dhcp and which part is bootp). >> >> Are you using a dedicated bootp server, or just >> run-of-the-mill dhcpd here? >> >> I haven't done much with pxe. I'm not even sure I >> know the difference between PXE and bootp. > > Another nice thing if you work with (recent) ptxdist and with barebox: > Barebox is not only able to load a kernel via tftp, but also via NFS. > And ptxdist builds a userspace nfs server. So you can remote boot your > target without having to install any infrastructure component (like a > TFTP server) and without root access. That's especially nice if you have > to deal with strange $BIG_COMPANY network setups :)
Interesting... That's something else to go look at. Thanks. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment ============================= _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list Celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org https://lists.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
