block 607417 by 474034 thanks Hi Alkis, and thanks for your bugreport, > We've modified it a bit so that it adds a "Boot from network" entry in > the Windows boot loader, instead of loading a Linux kernel. > To accomplish this we statically linked gpxe.lkrn [1] to > win32-loader.exe, and we modified main.nsi to load this instead of > vmlinuz. No initrd was necessary. Nice. > Currently the resulting "ltsp-loader.exe" [2] is used in some thousand > Greek school PCs to netboot thin and fat clients. But many others have > asked for this functionality in the #ltsp irc channel and in the > ltsp-discuss mailing list, so we think it'd be much better if the > upstream win32-loader Makefile supported a "Boot from network with gPXE" > target. > > Unfortunately gPXE is not yet in Debian due to (afaik) some unresolved > licensing issues. However if the win32-loader Makefile supported a gPXE > target, maybe one of the following would be possible: > * The gPXE devs to compile win32-loader with the gPXE target, and to > host the resulting win32-loader-gpxe.exe on their site themselves. > * Or a sysadmin or user could do that for his own use. > * Or win32-loader.exe could dynamically download gpxe.lkrn from the > gPXE website. As gPXE is not in Debian, I don't think it would be correct to upload a win32-loader including said functionality in Debian right now (in particular not in these times of freeze). Hence I marked that bug "blocked" by the gPXE ITP. But more generally, I don't see a reason to keep your patch out: merging is always good. > If you want we can send you the .diff for main.nsi that we currently > have, but we aren't very skilled with NSIS scripting so if you decide to > add that functionality upstream you'd probably want to properly > reimplement this yourselves. :) Please do so; attach the patch to this bugreport so that we can take a look at it. > In any case thanks again, > Alkis Georgopoulos Thanks also go to you for making such a nice use of win32-loader. :-> Cheers, OdyX -- Didier Raboud, proud Debian Maintainer (DM). CH-1020 Renens didier@raboud.com
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