#2733 Issue closed: Support for http targets in PXE¶

Labels: enhancement, fixed / solved / done

Flunkyball opened issue at 2021-12-26 18:38:¶

Due to performance reasons I want the kernel and initrd information to be pulled via http instead of tftp.
There is currently no option to tell rear that the kernel and initrd is a http target.
A typical produced config looks like this:

[...]
MENU title Relax-and-Recover v2.6
display CLIENT/CLIENT.message
say ----------------------------------------------------------
[...]
ENDTEXT
    kernel CLIENT/CLIENT.kernel
    append initrd=CLIENT/CLIENT.initrd.cgz root=/dev/ram0 vga=normal rw  selinux=0
say ----------------------------------------------------------
[...]

Manually adding the necessary http information works pretty fine:

kernel http://pxe-over-http-srv:7777/CLIENT/CLIENT.kernel
append initrd=http://pxe-over-http-srv:7777/CLIENT/CLIENT.initrd.cgz root=/dev/ram0 vga=normal rw  selinux=0

Flunkyball commented at 2022-01-08 14:08:¶

I created an pull request for that including the code that works fine for me.

jsmeix commented at 2022-01-12 13:03:¶

With https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2738 merged
this issue should be done.

@Flunkyball
thank you for your contribution to ReaR!

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