[haiku-development] Re: A question about PXE

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:36:42 +0100 CET

> In the notes I've gathered for building PXE, i ran into some
> confusion.
> Basically, I'm trying to figure out what needs to be built and how,
> so
> that it can be monitored in BOM.
>
> Are 1. and 2. functionally the same -- aside from the filenames of
> the
> object generated?

Seems so.
I guess it's just to have a different name.

> I'm not sure how 3. comes into play either.
>
> 3. jam -q haiku-netboot-archive
>       output: "haiku-netboot.tgz"
>

It generates an archive of the kernel and modules to be served by tftp
I suppose, just like it is read after haiku_loader when booted from
floppy.

François.

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