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doc/pxelinux.txt: Info on gPXE-enhanced binaries
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geneC committed Mar 10, 2011
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++++ gPXE-ENHANCED VARIANTS ++++

gPXE can be used to enhance PXELINUX's functionality to also include
HTTP transfers, greatly increasing load speed and allowing for standard
HTTP scripts to present PXELINUX's configuration file. pxelinux.0 is
the plain variant. gpxelinux.0 (included as of 3.70) is gPXE's
undionly.kkpxe, pxelinux.0 and a script to run pxelinux.0. gpxelinuxk.0
(included as of 4.04) is gPXE's undionly.kpxe, pxelinux.0 and a script
to run pxelinux.0. gpxelinuxk.0 should only be used with systems that
are incompatible with gpxelinux.0 as it prevents certain functionality
from working (LOCALBOOT with a type not equal to -1) and is incompatible
with certain hardware, PXE stacks and network setups.


++++ SETTING UP THE TFTP SERVER ++++

PXELINUX currently requires that the boot server has a TFTP server
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