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Re: BOOPT bootfile
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:26:04AM -0700, Gary D. Thomas wrote:
> > One obvious improvement would be to auto-detect the filetype.
>
> Agreed - I'll try and find a solution which handles this.
>
> > Another option I was thinking about would be to treat the
> > downloaded file as a script rather than an application
Which might as well be combined with the filetype detection so
that if a downloaded file begins with #!RedBoot it's
interpreted as a script. That would be cool.
> > That way you could do just put
> >
> > load foobar.bin
> > go
> >
> > into the file pointed to by BOOTP/DHCP
>
> Which is exactly what I suggested two years ago :-)
I guess I misunderstood. I thought that the suggestion was for
the DHCP/BOOTP info to be put into script variables so that the
script (still required to be in flash) could do something like
"load $BOOTPFILE". I didn't realize that you were suggesting
that the downloaded file be interpreted as a script.
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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