Subject: Re: pbsdboot booting compressed images; pbsdboot for ce1.0?
To: Pavel Machek" , "Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: TAKEMURA Shin <takemura@netbsd.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 06/25/2000 11:02:44
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Thomas" <matt@3am-software.com>
To: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: pbsdboot booting compressed images; pbsdboot for ce1.0?


> >I've got a wish for pbsdboot: it would be very nice to be able to boot
> >compressed images. Downloading boot image over serial takes 20 minutes
> >for me... Alternatively, if someone has gunzip for ce, it would be
> >pretty much equivalent.
> 
> While we have our wishlist out, I've for pbsdboot to be able to grab the
> default image for diskless clients via dhcp/nfs. 

It seems more difficilt for me than previous gunzip issue. How can we
do that?

P.S.
If you set up CE's LAN properly, pbsdboot can read the kernel
from file server via network.

Takemura