Re: [gentoo-releng] x86 netboot, because beejay sucks

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 22:53:16 +0200 Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> 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 :)

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
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