Re: PXES-Wishlist

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:54:03PM +0100, Yves Glodt wrote:
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> On Thursday 19 February 2004 15:53, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 20:05, Yves Glodt wrote:
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> >     On Wednesday 18 February 2004 23:25, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > there are some things I'd like to see in PXES. Maybe you can
> >     > consider them:
> >     >
> >     > 1.) A text field in pxesconfig to enter the kernel parameters
> >     >
> >     > 2.) Gigabit Ethernet modules
> >     >
> >     > 3.) ALSA and ARTs on the clients as ARTs returns timing
> >     > information of the soundcard. That way A/V can be synced while
> >     > it is awful with Esound.
> >     >
> >     > 4.) GATOS ATI and NVIDIA modules for accelerated 3D graphic
> >
> >     I feel so free to add this:
> >
> >     - - add fr_Ch keymap to X
> > Are you using it ?
> > Can you send me the kmaps ?
> 
> yes I do, and it was included in every linux distro I used since 1999.
> I attach it however. It is used in Switzerland and in Luxembourg, as is 
> de_CH.
> 
> Strangely it seems it is included in pxes:
> /opt/pxes-0.7/stock/extra/XFree86-4.3.0/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/fr_CH
> Could it be that the only problem is it's availability from pxesconfig?
> 
> >     - - add -query to chooseable xdmcp-options
> > It's there (direct).
> 
> sorry, stupid me was meaning "-broadcast"
broadcast and indirect are also there.

> 
> >     - - add a possibility to specify kernel parameters in pxesconfig
> > pxesconfig is not changing bootloader conf file, by now...
> 
> ok :-(
> 
> >     - - possibility to use a config server that has the same IP as
> >       the bootp server (without explicitly specifiing it's
> > IP-address) You can add this to the DHCP response
> 
> ok, great :-)
> 
> >     - - always automatically create a config file that inlcudes
> >       all the choosen settings from pxesconfig
> > I didn't understand what you mean. Perhaps
> > # pxesconfig -d - -i myimage
> 
> In fact I meant that after finishing pxesconfig there should always be a 
> configfile created that inlcudes all the settings that have been chosen 
> in pxesconfig.

I think that my approach is better, you can extract the comfiguration
file from any image you've create.
And you can rebuild the same image (non-interactively) using this config
file.
What do you think ?
> 
> saludos
> 
> >     thank you for pxes so far!
> > Thanks for the comments
> >
> >     Yves
> >
> >     > Rene
> >     >
> >     >
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