A question about the use of a custom initrd and kernel: What about using a standard distro image (Fedora/SUSE/your distro) instead and then just pulling over the couple of tools needed from an install server or CD? I read the linuxboot notes and agree that, for instance, Fedora's initrd, doesnt have all the necessary tools on board (dosemu.... etc). However it should be easy enough to pull the additional tools on the fly. With Fedora, kickstart makes this easy enough in the %pre section. I had in mind something like:
wget <server>dosemu wget <server>perl wget <server>bash - unpack - wget <server>master.sh
then run the bottom half of 'master' and we're away. We dont need the dhcp / storage driver work in the top of 'master' as thats already done by Fedora's Anaconda that was on board the initrd
The advantage of this is that we can stay with the stock vmlinuz / initrd from Fedora/RH instead of dealing with yet another custom initrd & kernel image and its problems. For instance, the latest unattended set with the 2.6.5 kernel won't talk to a USB keyboard during the boot; Fedora's latest does.
Anyway, if this is possible have I named everything I need to pull? dosemu, bash, perl? Anything else?
-Mark
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