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

[Mohammed_Khan at Dell.com]

My patches still work on Fedora 7 (including latest livecd-tools from 7
updates). We do builds almost every week w/ pxe-based boots of the
live"cd". 

I have not tried to see what the delta is if any in Fedora 8. 

Please let me know if there is interest... I will be happy to look at
getting the patches to work w/ Fedora 8. 

Also, I had to make minor tweaks to make patches work w/ Fedora 7's
updated livecd-tools package.. I can post the updated patches here if
anyone is interested.

Thanks,

MFK 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-livecd-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-livecd-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Katz
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:20 PM
> To: fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Running LiveCD from network?
> 
> 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
> 
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