pxe boot on busybox

[Eial Czerwacki]

On 01/31/2012 11:41 AM, tovis wrote:

>> 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


Hello Tovis,

that is correct.

Eial.