[Solved] Boot ISO images over menu.ipxe

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(2013-04-23 13:17)mcb30 Wrote:  ISOs tend to be large, and TFTP is slow. Use a more appropriate protocol such as HTTP or iSCSI instead.

Right. I make some test with ISO image 75.3MB over LAN Wifi -> Ethernet 100. I run server PXE (TFTPD32) + Apache HTTP in laptop Wifi 54Mb WPA2/AES and boot other PC in LAN with gPXE 1.0.1 (have in motherboard BIOS):

Code:

Ctrl-B (to stop autoboot from TFTP)
dhcp net0 (config net0 interface from TFTPD32 DHCP)
initrd http://192.168.xxx.xxx:port/mxp14.iso
chain memdisk iso

• HTTP time download: 51 seconds :-)
• TFTP time download: 1 min. 28 sec. (88 seconds)
  

HTTP is fast than TFTP :-)