[Fedora-livecd-list] Running LiveCD from network?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 13:05 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:59 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> >> Cain, Brian (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> >>>> I have a PXE boot environment set up for installing Fedora/RHEL.  Has
> >>>> anyone looked at making the LiveCD loadable from the network?  If not,
> >>>> are there any pointers that might help?
> >>> Mohammed Khan did some work a while back.  I wasn't able to get it to
> >>> work (failed at the pivot root), but I dig very deep on it.  It works
> >>> for him, so it's worth looking at.
> >>>
> >>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2007-June/msg00021.ht
> >>> ml
> >>>
> >> I'm happy someone else thinks like me. I posted to the anaconda list, a 
> >> hack using nsf as the storage point for the live image, but that only 
> >> did an install.(July/Aug 07). If that is what you want, it works. I'm 
> >> currently playing around with anaconda's loader to see if I can get that 
> >> to run the livecd, seems to me like a good starting point, with a gui 
> >> for dmc's persistent work. With anaconda's hardware detection, I'm 
> >> hoping to make a portable persistent live-usb disk. I've been (very) 
> >> slowly porting the livecd's initrd parts to C code for anaconda's 
> >> loader. I've got a mix of shell and C that currently can mount the 
> >> livecd, and use that in place of the stage2.img file. (boy is it hard to 
> >> keep up with some of the changes going on) Next is to get the run-init 
> >> part to work without freaking out anaconda. Any interested?
> > 
> > Rather than hijacking anaconda pieces (and the doom that is the anaconda
> > initrd), the better approach is probably to get to where we can use the
> > standard mkinitrd pieces to build the live initrd.  This likely is going
> > to involve switching the initrd over to using bash as opposed to nash as
> > its interpreter.  I started some work in this area, but realistically,
> > it's going to take some large-ish changes.
> 
> But I like anaconda's initrd, ;-) Cool, that is a whole pile less 
> convoluted that playing in C, looking forward to your progress. Got an 
> svn sandbox somewhere?

What I had is pretty out of date, but should be clonable from
http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/git/mkinitrd.git iirc.  

Jeremy