Chris Lalancette wrote:
Warren Togami wrote:
http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=livecd;a=commit;h=e0f0269d3a8f8f310e7c5fdfb8af45892f419c13
The way it works is to bundle the complete ISO image inside the initrd.
The kernel and (bloated) initrd are downloaded using PXE in the normal
way, and the init script finds and loopback-mounts the ISO image and
booting continues as normal.
Wow. I don't mean to offend, but this seems like an incredibly bad way
of doing this. Isn't this really slow in the boot up because you must
wait for the entire ISO to download? It also requires the client to
have more than enough RAM to have the entire ISO in memory? It sounds
like the entire memory used by the ISO remains unavailable to the booted
system.
Well, it depends on your definition of "bad". For the purposes I
originally wrote it for, the ISO is going to be fairly small (~70MB or
less), and the target machines will have a lot of memory. So for that
situation, it works well enough, doesn't waste an appreciable amount of
memory, and fits into existing tools fairly easily.
Ah, I didn't realize that you were using livecd-tools and mayflower for
a rescue or install type image. ~70MB really isn't so bad, and you are
right about one less service to configure being a benefit.
Warren Togami
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