Should say untested! On 25/02/07, Alex Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Steven (and list!),How about this for an alternative patch... Advantage:Does not need a command line but uses presence of the squashfs in the initramfs to do the right thing. Disadvantage: cant also used same initramfs to boot casper normally... but then would you want to? === modified file 'scripts/casper' --- scripts/casper 2007-02-16 16:54:16 +0000 +++ scripts/casper 2007-02-25 21:47:50 +0000 @@ -605,7 +605,9 @@ set_usplash_timeout - if [ ! -z "${NETBOOT}" ]; then + if is_casper_path "" ; then + livefs_root="${mountpoint}" + elif [ ! -z "${NETBOOT}" ]; then if do_netmount ; then livefs_root="${mountpoint}" else On 22/02/07, Steven Shiau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > We know there is a network boot mechanism based on NFS for Debian live. > On the other hand, to run Debian live from initrd via PXE boot, i.e. all > the files are in RAM, nothing is in NFS-based directory, seems to be > another good idea. The following method works with > http://live.debian.net/weekly-builds/20070219/i386/debian-live-etch-i386-standard.iso > For us, this "frominitrd" method is useful when we just want to use a > PXE server to provide a network boot service for client, and no NFS > service is necessary. It's something like "fire and forget" mode. You > can let client PXE boot, then the network cable for client is actually > not necessary any more. > The patch file for casper in initrd (for live-package 0.99.14-3) is > attached, and the pxelinux config file in server is like: > ------------------------------- > default linux > label linux > kernel vmlinuz > append initrd=initrd.gz boot=casper frominitrd > ------------------------------- > To use that, we have mount the isolinux/initrd.gz from > debian-live-etch-i386-standard.iso , replace the patched linuxrc, and > pack the initrd.gz with casper/filesystem.squashfs inserted. > All the above steps can be done by the program in > /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-SL.sh in project DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in > Linux, http://drbl.sf.net), with drbl version 1.7.9-54 or later . > Feel free to use it or modify if you think it's valuable. > Thanks you for such a nice live package. > > -- > Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> > National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. > http://www.nchc.org.tw > Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-live-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel > >
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