>Don't forget that when run as an initrd, it would have to be staticly
>linked against libc and friends (making it at weigh in at about 300k),
If you restrict your usage of libc calls to a minimum you can make it much
smaller. You can write a minimal, fairly portable, tftp client using not much
more than socket(), connect(), read(), write() and brk(). The libc
implementation for each of those routines is just a handful of bytes.
p.
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