I sent the following query to Richard Jones author of the fedora livecd-iso-to-pxeboot regarding setup for pxeboot of live Fedora Live CD images and hoping someone on this list might advise on this question:
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I am trying to use your script as part of a project to setup diskless compute clients from a Fedora 9 server.
I have already setup tftp, dhcp etc on this server and it is
working for unattended kickstart installs and loading diagnostic
programs to my clients on a private network.
To begin I just
wanted to see if I could pxeboot the live CD image. So I added the
following stanza to my pxelinux.cfg/default file
label live
kernel fedora-releases-9-i386/vmlinuz0
append initrd=fedora-releases-9-i386/initrd0.img root=/Fedora-9-i686-Live.iso rootfstype=iso9660 rootflags=loop
where
I moved the vmlinuz.0 and intrd0.img files created by
livecd-iso-to-pxeboot into the appropriate tftp server directories. My
client first loads the initrd0.img. The client next begins to boot
until it gets to the point where it needs to process the root
directive. It then gives me an error message listing the ram disk
block partitions. I have experimented with various directives to the
"root=?" field. Even after reading your maillist thread with Jeremy
Katz and others I am confused as to how to set this up.
Sorry to be so clueless on this but I am not at all clear in this
case what the "root=" is trying to point to or how I should set it up
-- Can you advise?
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He responded by properly advising me to:
You'll almost certainly be wanting to send this question over to the
fedora-livecd-list:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
Rich.
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Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any
software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
So hoping someone on the list might offer some help on setting this up. Thanks.
Michael
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