On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 19:24, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 22:53:16 +0200 Guy Martin wrote: > | > i actually have a good idea, i'm not here to make fun of beejay's > | > sheep. i have a machine that is really finicky about booting from a > | > cdrom. i have no clue why, its a new machine, good parts, etc. what > | > my thought is... i know grub can do netbooting of images on remote > | > machines. but my question is, is there a way to make/create a gentoo > | > livecd image that can be netbooted? if its not a big deal, i think > | > it would be a kick ass feature request (zhen, add that to the page > | > por favor). > | > | I'd like to see such thing integrated into catalyst. Actualy Weeve > | wrote a bash script to build netboot images for sparc but it's not > | very flexible :-/ > > I had this sort of working working a while back with catalyst, but it > kinda relied rather heavily on the "don't use genkernel patch" which > the previous catalyst maintainer rejected, so I dropped it entirely and > switched to manual builds. Prod me if you need advice :) Prodding commenced ;) Can you provide a rough step-by-step outline to creating a netboot image? Also, this image is what will be loaded via tftp when the machine PXE boots, correct? Regards, -- John Davis Gentoo Linux Developer ---- GnuPG Public Key: Fingerprint: 4F9E 41F6 D072 5C1A 636C 2D46 B92C 4823 E281 41BB