Syslinux - Jun 2013 - memdisk and iso

On 05/15/2013 02:42 PM, upen wrote:
> OK. That gives me some confidence. I will give another ISO a try. May be
> the Dell iso I am using right now doesn't blend well over this type of
> environment. I might have hit some other problem and transfer might
> actually have stopped when I was running dstat and it was just the basic
> transfer that got captured. Let me see if I get better speeds with a
> another bootable iso.
> 
No, that wouldn't be the issue.  You have an issue with your client PXE
stack, your server, or your network.

TFTP performance suffers dramatically if you have high latency or if you
have packet loss.

	-hpa

Sorry to bring this old thread up. I saw the note on the release of
syslinux-5.10 which I have just finished installing. I would like some help
here with configuration. I can move the iso into webserver's root directory
but what should the configuration below be changed to load the iso via http?

LABEL dell
MENU LABEL dell
LINUX memdisk
INITRD dell.iso
APPEND iso

I have the lpxelinux.0 in the tftp root directory as well.

Thanks!



On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:21 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 05/15/2013 02:42 PM, upen wrote:
> > OK. That gives me some confidence. I will give another ISO a try. May
be
> > the Dell iso I am using right now doesn't blend well over this
type of
> > environment. I might have hit some other problem and transfer might
> > actually have stopped when I was running dstat and it was just the
basic
> > transfer that got captured. Let me see if I get better speeds with a
> > another bootable iso.
> >
>
> No, that wouldn't be the issue.  You have an issue with your client PXE
> stack, your server, or your network.
>
> TFTP performance suffers dramatically if you have high latency or if you
> have packet loss.
>
>         -hpa
>
>
>

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