From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dick Brown Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:36:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] PXE Boot Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi Stephane, What is the configurations of the machine you are booting remotely. What firmware does it run on. thanks, Dick On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:15:57AM -0800, Michael Madore wrote: > Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > > Mike, > > > > The problem is that the client side needs to know the size of the file > > to allocate memory for it. By default, the TFTP protocol has no > > command to ask for the size of the file. To work around the problem, > > the client can load the file a few bytes at a time just to calculate > > the size. Once the size is known, the allocation is done and the > > file can be downloaded for real. > > I noticed that the tftp server logged two requests for elilo.efi. Does > this look like a problem on the client or the server? That is normal with a normal tftpd. Note that you don't see this for the kernel because elilo.efi uses an internal cache to avoid asking for the file again. > > > The ATFTP adds the support to ask for the file size, therefore you save > > one download of the file. Note that elilo has the same thing when it > > downloads any file from the network. > > Is aftpd required? No I don't run it and I netboot everyday. I use the tftpd shipped with RH7.2. -- -Stephane _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 mailing list Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/