[Udpcast] PXE append parameter problem and added feature question

[Bernard Chatin]

Hello Alain

First let me thanks you for this not enough known but great application (it
allows me to save a laptop hard drive where commercial product like Acronis
just fails and open source g4u didn't recognize the network card).

I'm considering using this product to save special configurations with PXE. I
successfully tested it with the linux24 precompiled kernel (the linux26 fails
to detect my USB keyboard). To avoid the menu options witch will be the same
accross my network I tried to use the documented keywords like those described
in http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/current/bootloader.html in the default file
after the append keyword(  append initrd=initrd disk=/dev/hda umode=snd
auto=yes). I read a previous post that says that only the first 6 parameter are
taken into account. Here it just doesnt't work. Do you know if it's a kernel
configuration problem ? Is there a workaround (for example putting those
parameters in a another configuration file) to avoid the menus ?

A few words about an added feature I would like to have :

I would like to have several process waiting on my linux server ready to backup
several hosts in their owns "file.img". That implies at least two things :

The possibility to generate a unique file name for each different client (One
approach would be to send the mac address from the client and to use it with a
time stamp on the server).

The possibility for the receiver to be split in a daemon part that never quits
and a child process to be spawned for each client. For that part maybe it could
be easier to use in the middle an http server and a cgi script.

Do you think it's doable and what would be the difficulty to implement it ?

Thanks for your feedback.

Bernard.