Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] network boot feature
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 2008 1:43:01 +300, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 13:46 -0700, Cristian Ciupitu wrote:
> This might be a bit off-topic, but here it goes. Would someone be
> interested in making the "Live CD" bootable over the network, besides
> CD-ROMs and USB flash drives? It would be something similar to the
> Knoppix Terminal Server. Here are some of the benefits:
[snip]
> It would be even nicer if the whole root could be stored in the RAM, but
> this is not a priority right now.
So there's already the livecd-iso-to-pxeboot script. It basically takes
it and makes it so that you grab the entire rootfs via tftp when pxe'ing
and thus puts it in RAM. For some cases, this works...
I didn't know about this script, but I will surely try it. It should be promoted
more :-)
> I have done something similar for Red Hat 7.1, only that the
root was
> shared over NFS and it was writable. Also, this time, I would like to
> see this integrated in the upstream.
But to do more (such as NFS or NBD), we really need to finish getting to
where we use more of the standard Fedora initrd infrastructure so that
we don't have to re-invent the wheel for things like network bring-up,
etc
That's why I want this integrated into mainstream, to reuse as much as
possible from the Fedora infrastructure, instead of rolling my own. Is
there a todo/bug list regarding this? I've already looked at the
livecd-tools bug list and I haven't seen anything regarding this.
Cristian