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What I had is pretty out of date, but should be clonable from http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/git/mkinitrd.git iirc.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 -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
