Last week was crazy, essentially went from "something" to livedvd + 
nfsroot (midterm huh ;P ):

livedvd:
- added my ebuilds (+ some clustering apps just to make sure they 
wouldn't bomb on me at integration time)
- started fiddling with fsscripts so the user would know where to start 
once booted:
    ** forcing text mode + modified motd, though I am not too happy with 
this approach
- I have to hack around some limitations imposed by catalyst, if I 
specify generic-livecd I drop too many features needed for a 
functional/installable solution
    ** I was changing profiles just to be able to specify a custom 
motd...will work around that.

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

General:

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

There is a lot more to it but let's leave that to the GIT's commit logs ;)

Eric Thibodeau

Git: 
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/clustering-livecd.git;a=summary
Actual evolving output files (please ASK before hogging my bandwidth): 
http://wiki.neuralbs.com/~kyron/soc2008/
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