On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:25:42 +0100 Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:22:15 +0000 > Greg Sutcliffe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 20 November 2011 19:08, Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > maybe there's a better way (like transmit something minimal, mount / over > > > nfs or whatever), > > > but i'm not familiar enough with archiso. > > > > Indeed, I'm looking into gPXE to boot from an http-served iso. > > Hopefully that will scale better... > > I don't know what you intend to achieve but you cannot do random seeks over > http, so it will still download the entire iso file. > Have a good look at archiso, maybe it has some optimizations for pxe. > > Dieter well, apparently you can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_serving still, i wonder how you would actually go about it in practice. and what kind of latencies to expect. Dieter
