The "Netboot a LiveCD" article is ready for review. Sorry about the delay.
On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 16:01 -0600, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote:
Alrighty then! I'll probably be able to get it written up by the
end of the
week.
On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 16:46 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> I like this idea!
>
> Paul
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 03:39:23PM -0600, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote:
> > I was considering a "Netboot a LiveCD" article. It would be a much
simpler and
> > shorter guide than the "full enchilada" that I provided in the
previous series
> > and it might suffice for some people's use cases.
> >
> > The howto would basically amount to tweaking the syslinux.cfg file on the
> > downloaded LiveCD to include the "netroot=iscsi:..." parameter and
then up
> > loading the modified iso to the iscsi server. Then you can just use iPXE's
> > "sanboot" command to netboot it.
> >
> > It would mainly be a convenience to sysadmins who wanted a
"rescue/installation"
> > netboot option for their workstations. Though it could also be used for a lab
> > that just wanted a very basic readonly OS with a browser. Maybe also to
> > developers who could use an archive of a bunch of older
OS's/kernels/browsers
> > for testing.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > On Fri, 2019-01-18 at 16:25 -0500, Paul Frields wrote:
> > > That sounds fair to me, Greg. Do you have some ideas for other content
> > > you're interested in, whether along the lines of sysadmin solutions
or
> > > something else?
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 5:05 PM Gregory Lee Bartholomew
> > > <gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 21:27 +0000, WordPress wrote:
> > > > > Adding a note from last week's meeting -- I think the
consensus was that ZFS
> > > > > and a custom kernel (we think that's required?) were not
something the editors
> > > > > felt we should strongly promote in Fedora, since it means the
kernel taint
> > > > > flag is set. Can this be rethought with another compression
option?
> > > >
> > > > The kernel does not have to be recompiled, but a module (zfs.ko)
does. The
> > > > module, when loaded, does indeed taint the kernel. Here is the line
that
> > > > displays in my dmesg output:
> > > >
> > > > znvpair: module license CDDL taints kernel.
> > > >
> > > > There is a "zfs-fuse" package available in the Fedora
repositories and a quick
> > > > online search appears to show that it can be used to boot a zfs root
(
> > > >
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zfs-fuse/Pngazp3mALw). But
the solution
> > > > looks a bit too hackish for my taste.
> > > >
> > > > Here is an explanation of why zfs-fuse package is is allowed in
Fedora, but
> > > > zfs.ko is not:
> > > >
http://warpmech.com/?news=myth-busting-series-zfs-on-linux-has-license-pr...
> > > >
> > > > Btrfs was mentioned as a possibility, but I am a little weary of it.
It looks
> > > > like RHEL is also deprecating it:
> > > >
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/...
> > > >
> > > > It looks like there is a possibility that Oracle may someday change
the ZFS
> > > > license:
> > > >
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-ZFS-2017-P...
> > > >
> > > > My intention at the moment is to hold off on doing netboot pt. 5 and
maybe
> > > > revisit the issue if Oracle does update the ZFS license.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
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