pxe boot on busybox

[tovis]

> On 01/31/2012 10:52 AM, ralda at gmx.de wrote:
>
>> Hallo Eial Czerwacki!
>>
>>> I have a computer that boots busybox, it needs to connect to a tftpboot
>>> server and get the
>>> boot file.
>>
>> Just a note for clarification: You DO NOT BOOT a Busybox system, you
>> boot a Linux system. That Linux system uses Busybox for it's base set
>> of commands, which is less than the size of the original tools/commands
>> but behave mostly same in it's major operation. As this you do not need
>> a special Busybox PXE boot description. Just follow the usual Linux PXE
>> boot tutorials out there (there are some in the wild).
>>
>> --
>> Harald
>>
>
>
> Hello Harald,
>
> I know, I didn't don't said I'm not booting a busybox, at least I didn't
> meant it.
>
> I boot a linux system, using busybox, I wanted to know if I can use
> busybox to connect to to the tftpboot server and get the boot bin file.
>
> Eial.
>
Hi Eial!
Just make it clear. You have a PXE server, based on any DHCP/TFTP
appliactions. You have a client which have Linux using busybox (instead of
full bunch of small applets), and you suppose to use this as a client for
your PXE server?

Regards
  tovis