Bug#509723: Support TFTP preseed fetch method

[Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>]

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:54:47PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
>> I would find it useful if the preseed file could be fetched via TFTP.
>
> I think this is a great idea; we'd need a TFTP client udeb first,
> though. The installation guide recommends tftpd-hpa as the server, so
> would I be right to assume that our preferred client would be tftp-hpa?

Now that Syslinux doesn't need the tsize TFTP option for all
transfers, hpa isn't particularly interested in developing
tftp(d)-hpa.  They are still a pretty good and portable TFTP
server/client pair, though.

Don't forget that busybox also has a TFTP client applet.
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Regards,
Feri.