Do we need split media CDs for F12?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Jun 15 01:35:16 UTC 2009


On Sunday, June 14 2009, King InuYasha said:
> Also, maybe we should support PXE/network booting the Live version from
> mirrors or whatever with the advent of netbooks and other computers without
> an optical drive. While doing it via USB is preferable, it is not always
> possible. For example I have a laptop with a completely damaged drive bay
> where the CD drive is and it does not support booting from USB devices.
> Being able to boot the Live distro from a network would be a great
> alternative.

See the livecd-iso-to-pxeboot script, although it does place some
(somewhat) different requirements on things.  If we can get dracut in
for F12, we might be able to be more clever with netboot + live images

Jeremy




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