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<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Hi guys,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I'm using gPXE for a year now and I'm loving it,
Thanks to all developers involved,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">one thing that I'm missing is a way to
define my own commands, </FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="2">that will execute gPXE
commands / batch scripts.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I happen to test many combination of operating
systems / settings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">and it would be much faster to press Ctrl-B and
enter Win7G11,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">than to enter the whole chain of commands
required:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">> set gateway 192.168.1.11</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">> sanboot
iscsi:192.168.1.11::::win7</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I'm familiar with the menu option, but the number
of iscsi targets involved would make it a mess to use a single menu page, I'm
also more comfortable with the command line.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">One idea I had is to use an embedded script to set
a "root-directory" (batch scripts directory),</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">and then, whenever an unknown-command will be
entered, we will chain "root-directory/unknown-command.pxe",</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">this also requires that we will have a way to abort
the embedded script (where we set the root-dir variable) and return to the
command line.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">if that sounds like too much, I can settle for an
</FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="2">"alias" command (alias Win7G11 sanboot
iscsi:192.168.1.11::::etc),</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">again, we can use the embedded script, but we need
a way to return to the command line.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for your time,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Tal Aloni</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><A href="mailto:tal.aloni.il@gmail.com">tal.aloni.il@gmail.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>