Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 00:00:39 -0400 From: Carl Chave <carl@chave.us> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pxe LiveCD setup Message-ID: <AANLkTincJRyH_o1b7bCgbhIkZaHzc8zUihV3IM_RXwV5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007031812340.94356@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007031256290.93462@wonkity.com> <AANLkTilykcsBBsDl7XFXQeQY54s3BdiotQjG3pDjdjcv@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007031812340.94356@wonkity.com>
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> After a very cursory setup, it works! =A0I took notes and will write it u= p in > a bit. > > The only complaint I have so far is the speed of download via tftp. =A0A = 236M > ISO took two minutes to load, or about 2M per second. =A0A full CD takes = a > long, long time. =A0Is that typical, or maybe just the poor Ethernet on t= his > Aspire One D250? I haven't timed them so I can't say for sure. The biggest file I currently use is a windows PE .iso and it does take a bit to transfer. I'll breakout the stopwatch next week and see. My DHCP/tftp server is a Sunfire V240 with Solaris 10. I was having a horrible time with the default tftp server and switched to tftpd-hpa which helped a lot, especially with being able to remap \ to /. Floppy images work well also. I've got a Freedos boot disk floppy image with 3com's universal PXE ethernet driver for dumping and restoring ghost images. Works out of the box with every PXE client I've tried, no need to have custom boot disks with different nic drivers. One of the tweaks I did with the grldr file was to hex edit a section so it goes straight to the menu instead of cycling though the mac address variations. Then I added the company logo to the background of the menu... and ... nobody sees it but me!
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