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From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] PXE
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:45:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76e6091ee713d2fb1857a0dd75d58ac0@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030916191304.H9751@cackle.proxima.alt.za>

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No documentation.  I have to finish the PXE stuff to make it a little easier.
Right now, I use PXE to get a 9load and then type the real kernel address
by hand when 9load prompts.

What I intend to do is have an extra entry in the ndb that indicates which
file to download for PXE and which for 9load.  I can distinguish using the
vendor id (or some such).  I'm on vacation but I'll finish it when I get back,
not a lot of work.

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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] PXE
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:13:05 +0200
Message-ID: <20030916191304.H9751@cackle.proxima.alt.za>

I now have a VXL Precio diskless workstation that I would like to run
Plan 9 on.  I can convince it to use PXE to boot, but I don't know
quite what's involved to make it work properly.

Right now, it looks like it doesn't even register a DHCP requests, but
I really don't know enough about PXE (in fact, I think I know
precisely nothing about PXE) to judge.

What seems I ought to know, anyway, is how I can tuck a plan9.ini
somewhere for 9pxeload to find it, if I can get PXE to load it, of
course.

Is anyone preapred to give me a crash course on PXE for Plan 9?  Or
point me to relevant documentation?

++L

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-18 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-16 17:13 Lucio De Re
2003-09-18 14:45 ` David Presotto [this message]
2004-11-07 13:36 Sergey Reva
2004-11-07 13:39 ` Sape Mullender

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