[ipxe-devel] Transfer of a whole Dir with wimboot?

[Christian Nilsson]

This should only be done for NIC drivers, but for those you could
consider to add 7z.exe and relevant archives of the files, and then
extract that inside winpe, but a proper driver only has 3 files (.inf,
.cat, .sys)
Any non nic drivers are instead loaded over the network from within pe
- this reduces issues (hangs) during bootup, and makes it easier to
troubleshoot such issues.

On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 22:33, Oliver Rath <oliver at greenunit.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> thank you for the fast answer! My idea was to transfer hardware-specific
> driver files (depending on busid) dynamicly to the boot.wim-Image. Imho
> the image *has* a directory-structure, although the overloading with
> initrd can only put files into \Windows\System32.
>
> Every windows NIC-driver has multiple files, so it would have been
> comfortable to overload it in one step.
>
> If I understand the second link (i dont know that) right, the overloaded
> file is viewable in *every* dir?
>
> Nevertheless, if the files only can loaded one by one, it is ok for me, too.
>
> Tfh!
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
> On 28.10.18 21:18, Christian Nilsson wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 21:11, Oliver Rath <oliver at greenunit.de> wrote:
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> is it possible to transfer a whole directory at once with wimboot/initrd
> >> or do I have to transfer each file seperatly? Am I able to create a dir
> >> with this mechanism?
> >>
> > What is your end goal?
> > There is no directory structure supported by wimboot (well there is,
> > but you can't affect it since it is magic, see provided links)
> > And also any injected file is just copied to system32 - without any
> > structure available.
> > for initrd, there is no way for it to load multiple files - maybe it
> > would be possible on FTP or NFS, but there is no directory listing
> > support in TFTP or HTTP so that would mostly be unused code - as such
> > you will have to list files one by one that you want to load.
> >
> > https://ipxe.org/wimboot#injected_files
> > https://ipxe.org/appnote/wimboot_architecture#the_wimboot_virtual_filesystem
> >
> > /Christian
>