Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] PXEinstall.gz hdsupp install not working On 2011-01-07 23:14, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2011, 22:43:21 schrieb Per Sjoholm: > ....... > I agree that the situation has to be improved and sources, updates etc. should > be available in the future. But this requires that either someone step up as > maintainer and tries to move pxeinstall up to Bering-uClibc4 or we have to > wait until Bering-uClibc4 has been stabilized and the current devlopers have > time to look into pxeinstall. > > kp >
Maybe the current pxeinstall.tgz can be left behind. It does work for installing a system, better to look ahead. Some ideas After wrestling with current pxeinstall. Would the outlined idea below be feasible ? We could make the initrd.lrp more generic and customizeable allowing for different HW and booting metods with fewer variants of downloadables. Trac #3: "Formal support for PXELINUX boot / install " + some enhancements. initrd.lrp has /boot/etc/modules that control what modules to load. /lib/modules the modules to load first If we add a way of customizing initrd.lrp according to a template PXE and HW specific can be handled. Customizing could be done in a Vbox or qemu instance, allowing a normal "user" to do it. Or a running linux system with minix filesystem support is a requirement. Any reason why initrd is minix file system? For PXE we need NIC modules and NICs may need mii.lrp or ... we also need basic network to get wget and some checking the correctness of the downloaded files. Preferable some signing of packages. Machine is booted with correct drivers. We add a network loading mechanism, a net device support for PKGPATH in commandline and leaf.cfg By giving command line options. parameters and different linuxrc can be specified i.e. controlling the boot/install process. A pxeinstall.lrp based on(using) dnsmasq and httpd for serving as dhcp,tftp, pxe server for files including leaf.cfg. /Per ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
