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On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 19:24, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 22:53:16 +0200 Guy Martin <gmsoft@g.o> wrote: |
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> | > i actually have a good idea, i'm not here to make fun of beejay's |
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> | > sheep. i have a machine that is really finicky about booting from a |
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> | > cdrom. i have no clue why, its a new machine, good parts, etc. what |
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> | > my thought is... i know grub can do netbooting of images on remote |
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> | > machines. but my question is, is there a way to make/create a gentoo |
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> | > livecd image that can be netbooted? if its not a big deal, i think |
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> | > it would be a kick ass feature request (zhen, add that to the page |
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> | > por favor). |
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> | I'd like to see such thing integrated into catalyst. Actualy Weeve |
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> | wrote a bash script to build netboot images for sparc but it's not |
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> | very flexible :-/ |
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> I had this sort of working working a while back with catalyst, but it |
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> kinda relied rather heavily on the "don't use genkernel patch" which |
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> the previous catalyst maintainer rejected, so I dropped it entirely and |
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> switched to manual builds. Prod me if you need advice :) |
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Prodding commenced ;) |
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Can you provide a rough step-by-step outline to creating a netboot |
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image? Also, this image is what will be loaded via tftp when the machine |
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PXE boots, correct? |
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Regards, |
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John Davis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen> |
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