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To:	gentoo-soc@g.o
From:	Eric Thibodeau <kyron@...>
Subject:	Re: GSoc 2009 : Making the cluster LiveCD bootable from USB
Date:	Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:18:10 -0400

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In response to two e-mails I just got off list from Meetanshu Gupta 
and Ajith Kamath, in both cases the impression is that the project is
simply to port the bootable CD to USB disk. Here is are <u>some</u>
clarifications:<br>
<br>
- The wiki's¹ description is misleading, booting to USB was ONE of my
suggestions with a little more details here². Quite frankly, porting to
USB should be somewhat trivial. The hardest part is to being very
methodical and making sure the process can be reproduced using,
ideally, Catalyst and little outside scripting. All of this also
implies getting the catalyst specs up to date, modifying/removing many
hacks that would no longer be required for a USB based boot (since we
would now have an RW system). *** root on JFFS2 might be of interest
here ***... and so on.<br>
<br>
- AuFS is used as an overlay system and is required for the NFS-booted
nodes. One might want to migrate that to a less efficient tmpfs
approach (ref: LTSP implementation as being done under Gentoo too).<br>
- Change most of the scripts to use dialog and automate some
detection/ask questions as per what was discovered.<br>
- ... and so on, the idea would be to implement my original proposal
and push it further. I do have it but want some feedback before I dig
it out and re-post it (Donnie, thought you had posted it as an example?
If not so, feel free to do so if it's still relevant.)<br>
<br>
¹: the wiki:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/2009_Summer_Of_Code_Ideas#Make_the_clustering_LiveCD_from_last_year.27s_GSoC_bootable_from_USB">http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/2009_Summer_Of_Code_Ideas#Make_the_clustering_LiveCD_from_last_year.27s_GSoC_bootable_from_USB</a>
<br>
²: Donnie's wordpress:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dberkholz.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/planning-for-gentoo-in-the-2009-summer-of-code/">http://dberkholz.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/planning-for-gentoo-in-the-2009-summer-of-code/</a>
<br>
<br>
Eric Thibodeau<br>
PS: I'm keeping anyone interested in the project in the loop... Some
have already started getting familiarized with the code base at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/clustering-livecd.git;a=tree">http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/clustering-livecd.git;a=tree</a>
...I strongly urge anyone interested in the project to get familiar
with using catalyst and the contents of the git!<br>
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Re: Re: GSoc 2009 : Making the cluster LiveCD bootable from USB
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Re: GSoc 2009 : Making the cluster LiveCD bootable from USB
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