On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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? >
Yes, you are right. Some important things for webbot that client image (kernel + initrd) must have is: early configured networking, wget and ability to resolve DNS names. All of this worked now with lb config -b net && lb build except DNS resolving (debian squeeze; live-build 2.0.1-1; live-initramfs 2.0.6-1). So, I hope, it really should be easy to add full webboot support. -- Nikolay Kasatkin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
