[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: [PATCH] Add support for pxeboot

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> said:
>> The other approach which we looked at and partially implemented was to 
>> modify the normal initrd/init so that it could do a separate request to 
>> download the ISO.
> 
> Did you look at mounting the ISO over NFS?  I would expect that a lot of
> the cases where PXE is available NFS (or some type of network FS) is
> available.  That's the path I was planning to chase.

Again, that's possible but also much more complex.  The administrator 
now has to set up an NFS server as well as DHCP, TFTP and PXE.

This is designed to be a solution with minimal impact on livecd-creator, 
and mostly effortless for existing pxeboot administrators.

Rich.

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