On 10/07/2010 01:03 PM, Nikolay Kasatkin wrote: > Do you have any plans to extend live-build functionality to support > web boot with fetch=http:// parameter natively?
not really, but it should be very easy to add, so why not.. > I mean that I can > create live boot images for nfs network boot and manually replace all > nfs mentions with fetch=http://... parameter. But it would be nice to > have options to automatically generate such configuration files when > running lb config && lb create. i think there are two things here to seperate.. one is the stuff that you put on the server. that filesystem image is different from the nebboot one; netboot contains nfs etc in initrd, webboot doesn't. so, a webboot one would be the same as iso (content wise, not formally, as the output would not be an iso image, but a tarball). the other is that you still need a client image, consisting of a kernel and initrd only, without filesystem.squashfs since that is going to be fetched. so we would need to create an iso-hybrid images and/or usb-hdd images for that, configured with the right fetch:// thing in the booloader config. is that all, or have i forgot anything, what do you think? -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [email protected] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
