[Planetlab-devel] Plnode.txt on MyPLC 4.3

[Thierry Parmentelat]

Then what you need is

GetBootMedium (auth,nodename, 'node-floppy','',[])

which is available through the API




On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Dennis Schwerdel wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> The current usage is to download a full CD or USB booting medium; in
>> other words, rather than having to download 2 items ( one being the
>> plnode.txt, and the other being the generic CD or ISO), people now
>> only need to download one, that is node-specific and has plnode.txt
>> embedded; it makes everybody's (techs and admins) life easier, as we
>> have much fewer out-dated boot media..
> We have a different boot process. The nodes use PXE boot to request  
> their boot
> files, i.e. a generic boot image for all nodes and a custom overlay  
> image
> containing only the plnode.txt.
> So we need the plnode.txt. Extracting it from a iso file is a bit  
> complicated
> compared with simply downloading it.
> Is it possible to restore the old options?
>
> Regards
>
> Dennis
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