Hi all, I have finally resolved and merged a bunch of patch I had for di-netboot-assistant. (Frans, could you have a look at it and upload it to experimental please).
This version is Experimental, because of feature #1 below. The major features are: 1. Drop PXELinux's DHCP option 210 requirement (pathprefix="/") 2. Allow customizing netboot parameters. 3. Allow saving a repository as a different name, like saving the daily images as $(date +%a) 4. allow running by a non-privileged user (Thanks to Daniel Gillmor) The actual changelog below. Your feedback is welcome. Franklin FYI, My roadmap (post Squeeze?) still to includes: - Allow preseeding, by embedding file preseed in initrd - Use local repository - Download/Embed Firmware - Allow embedding on D-I or Live-CD for easy Netboot setup. > di-netboot-assistant (0.37) unstable; urgency=low > > * DHCP option 210 (pathprefix="/") isn't needed anymore. > (Closes:#498206) > * add options di-args and target-args for boot parameters. > * Improve command line argument parsing. > * Implement "--alias" option. > * Improve comments in di-sources.list > * Improve di-netboot-assistant manpage. > * allow running by a non-privileged user (Closes:#503359, Thanks > to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the patch) > * Change umask to allow group writables files. > * Use dpkg --print-architecture to query arch. > * Display failed URL without requiring --verbose (Closes:#493418, > Thanks to Chris Lamb) > * Output status messages to STDOUT, not STDERR (Closes:#493426, > Thanks to Chris Lamb) > * Default PROMPT to 0 in pxelinux.HEAD (Closes:#493548, Thanks to > Chris Lamb) > * Bump standards to 3.8.3 > * Fetch daily images from d-i.debian.org > > -- Frank Lin PIAT <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:40:20 +0200 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
