Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: omersiar on June 07, 2014, 02:16:06 PM

Title: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
Post by: omersiar 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 (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.

Title: Re: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
Post by: tinypoodle on June 07, 2014, 02:42:26 PM

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:netbooting

Title: Re: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
Post by: omersiar on June 07, 2014, 03:52:34 PM

How about loading tcz files from repo? Is this possible with httplist?

Title: Re: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
Post by: tinypoodle 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.

Title: Re: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
Post by: omersiar on June 09, 2014, 04:26:44 PM

Yes i mean public repo. I guess we will wait and see what time brings.

Title: Re: TinyCore iPXE HTTP Boot Support with Extensions
Post by: curaga 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.