[Fedora-livecd-list] Netboot

[Aaron Hanson]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cain, Brian (GE Healthcare) [mailto:Brian.Cain at ge.com] 
>Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:31 AM
>To: Aaron Hanson
>Subject: FW: [Fedora-livecd-list] Netboot
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-livecd-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:fedora-livecd-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Aaron 
>> Hanson
>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 12:24 PM
>> To: fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Netboot
>> 
>> Hi All -
>>  
>>     I though this would have been discussed by now but I 
>couldn't find 
>> any relevant threads in the archive. I would like to boot the entire 
>> livecd image via network. To my basic understanding, the 
>simplest way 
>> to do this might be:
>...
>
>Aaron,
>
>	I think you've got the right idea on this.  I was 
>considering doing something similar -- I was thinking about 
>doing an install to an NFS root using some of the code in 
>livecd-creator.  What I like about your idea is that once the 
>image has been copied over, you don't really need the network anymore.
>
>	Have you made any progress?  Would you be willing to 
>keep me (and/or the list) in the loop on how this goes?
>
>-Brian
>

Hi Brian -

	Thanks for your suggestions and yes, I will continue to post
progress on this issue to the list. That is, unless someone feels it is
off-topic!

	I found my first mistake. The ramfs is a simple compressed cpio;
I forgot to use the "-H newc" option to cpio, which is necessary in this
case because the image is very big.

	Now I can net-boot and get to a bash shell. Unfortunately the
"init" script produced by mayflower is still confused by the absence of
any root device. I'm now trying to come up with a small patch to get
past this.

-Aaron