Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Guy Martin <gmsoft@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] x86 netboot, because beejay sucks
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 20:57:12
Message-Id: 20040903225316.3b91aafb.gmsoft@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] x86 netboot, because beejay sucks by Jeffrey Forman
1 On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 16:52:29 -0400
2 Jeffrey Forman <jforman@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > hey guys,
5 >
6 > i actually have a good idea, i'm not here to make fun of beejay's
7 > sheep. i have a machine that is really finicky about booting from a
8 > cdrom. i have no clue why, its a new machine, good parts, etc. what my
9 > thought is... i know grub can do netbooting of images on remote
10 > machines. but my question is, is there a way to make/create a gentoo
11 > livecd image that can be netbooted? if its not a big deal, i think it
12 > would be a kick ass feature request (zhen, add that to the page por
13 > favor).
14
15 I'd like to see such thing integrated into catalyst. Actualy Weeve wrote
16 a bash script to build netboot images for sparc but it's not very
17 flexible :-/
18 Maybe I could help with this. I'd really like to publish netboot images
19 for hppa.
20
21 --
22 Guy Martin
23 Gentoo Linux - HPPA port Lead / IPv6 team
24 Lug Charleroi (Belgium)

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-releng] x86 netboot, because beejay sucks Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-releng] x86 netboot, because beejay sucks Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>