From jonstanley at gmail.com Thu May 22 02:14:14 2008 From: jonstanley at gmail.com (Jon Stanley) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:14:14 -0400 Subject: [Thincrust-devel] Making an appliance? Message-ID: One of the items that we in the Fedora QA world would like is a tool to be able to provision a machine using SNAKE (http://fedorahosted.org/snake) via PXE boot rather than via an already installed system. One of the things that we think is fairly low barrier to doing this is an ultraminimal LiveCD and using livecd-iso-to-pxeboot. I think that there are some tools in this project to help with making this a reality, but I'm not sure where to start. We obviously don't need anything like corporate manageability or anything like that. -- Jon Stanley Fedora Bug Wrangler jstanley at fedoraproject.org From bkearney at redhat.com Thu May 22 13:40:48 2008 From: bkearney at redhat.com (Bryan Kearney) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:40:48 -0400 Subject: [Thincrust-devel] Making an appliance? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <483577E0.6050704@redhat.com> We are working on tooling which is extending livecd tools. Is what you need "just" a live cd? If so.. perhaps you could look at some of the small kickstart files here (http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=act.git;a=tree;f=config;h=6f4b7850899dde09f6dcf6d023609f84c9e5b7da;hb=HEAD) and pipe those through livecd-creator? That would give you a pretty small and quick livecd. If you added a first-boot task which took you straight into the snake-tui perhaps that would solve the problem? Lemme know if I have mis-understood what you are looking to do. -- bk Jon Stanley wrote: > One of the items that we in the Fedora QA world would like is a tool > to be able to provision a machine using SNAKE > (http://fedorahosted.org/snake) via PXE boot rather than via an > already installed system. One of the things that we think is fairly > low barrier to doing this is an ultraminimal LiveCD and using > livecd-iso-to-pxeboot. > > I think that there are some tools in this project to help with making > this a reality, but I'm not sure where to start. We obviously don't > need anything like corporate manageability or anything like that. >