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 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:fedora-livecd-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Katz > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:20 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 > > -- > Fedora-livecd-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
