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Offline omersiar

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TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
« on: June 07, 2014, 02:16:06 PM »
Hello,

I'm trying to find out a way to boot TinyCore from HTTP using iPXE. It actually boots to $ command prompt, but as you know does not load extensions because of memdisk iso handling. I kindly ask you to adding a feature like loading extensions form HTTP ? or iso file possible? (mydata.gz also). Like PLOP Linux http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux/networkboot-linux.html#pxel6 Thank you. I think iPXE booting Tiny Core really opens a new world how we can use Tiny Core.

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Re: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2014, 03:52:34 PM »
How about loading tcz files from repo? Is this possible with httplist?

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Re: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2014, 07:11:40 PM »
If you mean public repo, then no.
If you mean personal repo, you could try symlinking to netboot dir, though not sure if that would work.
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Re: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2014, 04:26:44 PM »
Yes i mean public repo. I guess we will wait and see what time brings.

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Re: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2014, 04:36:54 AM »
That's not really friendly to anyone's bandwidth, repeatedly grabbing the same things, when you could be caching them locally.
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