On 11:15 Mon 07 Jul     , Eric Thibodeau wrote:
> nfsroot:
>    Went from nothing (well...apart from 3yo personal scripts and old  
> notes) to booting nfsroot!
> -    I am using my current server configuration to perform tests (with  
> VMware as the test node), this speeds up the dev cycle quite a bit
> -   using baselayout2 (openrc) which did make my live easier but I still  
> have to figure some of it out (such as

such as ...

> General:
>
> -   I need to devise the correct way to integrate the nfsroot files into  
> the livedvd. Uncompressed, the files take ++500MB, compressed, about  
> 145MB (!).

OK, but doesn't the livedvd ends up throwing everything into a squashfs?

> -   Is this going to be a full-fledged livedvd solution with config  
> retention between boots?...the gentoo releases don't have that support  
> yet but I could hack something up to use ie: a USB key on bootup to  
> fetch/save configs.

Sure, could just unionfs it on top of /etc and /home if it exists. 
That'd be neat and generally useful if you integrated support into 
catalyst.

I don't think it's a critical feature though, so it should go on the 
back burner like the dialog UI.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com