Thomas Wagner wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:39:13AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote: > > While waiting for another jumpstart session to install a machine I had a > > small idea which may be interesting for BeleniX: > > Would it be usefull to share the BeleniX ISO image via "public NFS" > > (sometimes called "WebNFS", see mount_nfs(1M), option "public" and/or > > RFC 2055 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2055)) and create a tiny loader > > program which fetches an IPv4 address, IPv4 mask and IPv4 default router > > from the user and then boots this ISO image (e.g. more or less a LiveCD > > using the Internet as CD reader... or some kind of Internet-wide > > jumpstart...) ? > > The right X86-grub entries should be able to boot the miniroot > from the net, if grub is PXE enabled and a direct or NATted > Internet connection exists... > > pxegrub fetched by the PXE BIOS/NIC uses this menu.lst: > > default=0 > timeout=2 > title Solaris_11 Jumpstart > kernel /I86PC.Solaris_11-10/platform/i86pc/kernel/unix - install > nowin -B > install_config=192.168.1.19:/opt/SUNWjet,sysid_config=192.168.1.19:/opt/SUNWjet/Clients/soalrisbox,install_media=192.168.1.19:/jumpstartmedia/Sol_11_x86_nv69,install_boot=192.168.1.19:/jumpstartmedia/Sol_11_x86_nv69/boot > module /I86PC.Solaris_11-10/x86.miniroot
Uhm... has "grub" support to boot from an ISO image shared via an IP-based protocol (like NFS (e.g. only do read requests on demand and _not_ download the whole ISO image first) ; note that this is different than a miniroot... I am thinking about something like an internet-based LiveCD in this example) ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
