On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:25:42 +0100 Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:22:15 +0000 Greg Sutcliffe <greg.sutcliffe@gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 November 2011 19:08, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
maybe there's a better way (like transmit something minimal, mount / over nfs or whatever), but i'm not familiar enough with archiso.
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.
Dieter
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. Dieter