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
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[mailto:fedora-livecd-list-
bounces(a)redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Katz
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:20 PM
To: fedora-livecd-list(a)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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