[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Seemingly divergent netboot/disklessrc and livecd/mayflower for initrd, init, etc...

[Bryan J Smith]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:59 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> I'm speaking from a bit of a position of prejudice, but
> s-c-netboot is almost never the right tool.

I would not disagree.  But it did give me some "hints," at least what
resulted.  I was considering writing a partial replacement, just for the
Diskless and Thin Client portions.

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:59 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> But in general, I think you're in one-off land - I don't think
> writing a whole new thing and expecting to forward port it i
> going to be worth the effort.

Maybe not.  But I need something working for RHEL 5.  If I can reuse
some things (like the flash boot+checker), then great.  If not, oh well.

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:56 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> All I'm saying is that trying to pile stuff that's designed for post
> RHEL5 into RHEL5 is not going to very conducive to that "stability" of
> RHEL5.

Agreed.  Which is why I just wanted to take "what works" in the
"Stateless Tech Preview" in RHEL 5.2 (5.1+) and make a more
LiveCD/mayflower-like approach.  Use Anaconda to install to a directory,
then post-process the initrd for Diskless, disk (including boot+update
check), ISO, etc...

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:56 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Apart from that, you're not likely to find much help in the
> various upstreams trying to backport those things to the old RHEL5
> platform. And it is quite old.

Exactomundo.  I'm looking at, essentially, Fedora Core 6 (maybe a few
Fedora 7 things if I'm lucky).

Which brings me back to my "I need a solution, and I'll hack it out."
So I'm just looking for comments, etc...  I wish RHEL 6 was even in
pre-Beta, but I do not believe it is.


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