hi guys,
About a year or so back, there was some effort put into getting a CentOS-5 image setup to work off boot.kernel.org and be able to get that install process working. That effort was abandoned since it needed quite a lot of work to be done, and was startig to become massively intrusive. The people involved with that effort, including me, are quite busy with a lot of stuff on the agenda at the moment and I was wondering if anyone would like to pickup CentOS-6 images and see whats needed to make things work off b.k.o
Regards,
- KB
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Karanbir Singh kbsingh@centos.org wrote:
hi guys,
About a year or so back, there was some effort put into getting a CentOS-5 image setup to work off boot.kernel.org and be able to get that install process working. That effort was abandoned since it needed quite a lot of work to be done, and was startig to become massively intrusive. The people involved with that effort, including me, are quite busy with a lot of stuff on the agenda at the moment and I was wondering if anyone would like to pickup CentOS-6 images and see whats needed to make things work off b.k.o
Regards,
- KB
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I think I can do that.
On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi guys,
About a year or so back, there was some effort put into getting a CentOS-5 image setup to work off boot.kernel.org and be able to get that install process working. That effort was abandoned since it needed quite a lot of work to be done, and was startig to become massively intrusive. The people involved with that effort, including me, are quite busy with a lot of stuff on the agenda at the moment and I was wondering if anyone would like to pickup CentOS-6 images and see whats needed to make things work off b.k.o
I'll pick this up and run with it as well.
-- Corey / KB1JWQ
----- Original Message ----- | On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: | | > hi guys, | > | > About a year or so back, there was some effort put into getting a | > CentOS-5 image setup to work off boot.kernel.org and be able to get | > that | > install process working. That effort was abandoned since it needed | > quite | > a lot of work to be done, and was startig to become massively | > intrusive. | > The people involved with that effort, including me, are quite busy | > with | > a lot of stuff on the agenda at the moment and I was wondering if | > anyone | > would like to pickup CentOS-6 images and see whats needed to make | > things | > work off b.k.o | | I'll pick this up and run with it as well. | | -- Corey / KB1JWQ | _______________________________________________ | CentOS-devel mailing list | CentOS-devel@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
Booting ISO images is available in a git branch of iPXE which is a fork of gPXE for which b.k.o. is built around. I'm already using it to boot installation media for Windows and GNU/Linux from ISOs. Doing it from the LiveCDs is pretty damn simple.
See http://git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/ipxe.git/shortlog/refs/heads/httpsan
Okay I've got some preliminary code that will do it, but I'd like a bit more detail as to how you plan on implementing it. Is there an intention to have a boot.centos.org server for which menu options that a user can choose from is selectable? i.e.
Boot CentOS 5 x32 Install Boot CentOS 5 x64 Install Boot CentOS 5 x32 Live Boot CentOS 5 x64 Live
Boot CentOS 6 x32 Install Boot CentOS 6 x64 Install Boot CentOS 5 x32 Live Boot CentOS 5 x64 Live
and then these choose the ISO from a mirror closest to them or would you just like a CD image that just net boots the appropriate version? What is it that you would like?
----- Original Message ----- | ----- Original Message ----- | | On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: | | | | > hi guys, | | > | | > About a year or so back, there was some effort put into getting a | | > CentOS-5 image setup to work off boot.kernel.org and be able to | | > get | | > that | | > install process working. That effort was abandoned since it needed | | > quite | | > a lot of work to be done, and was startig to become massively | | > intrusive. | | > The people involved with that effort, including me, are quite busy | | > with | | > a lot of stuff on the agenda at the moment and I was wondering if | | > anyone | | > would like to pickup CentOS-6 images and see whats needed to make | | > things | | > work off b.k.o | | | | I'll pick this up and run with it as well. | | | | -- Corey / KB1JWQ | | _______________________________________________ | | CentOS-devel mailing list | | CentOS-devel@centos.org | | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel | | Booting ISO images is available in a git branch of iPXE which is a | fork of gPXE for which b.k.o. is built around. I'm already using it to | boot installation media for Windows and GNU/Linux from ISOs. Doing it | from the LiveCDs is pretty damn simple. | | See | http://git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/ipxe.git/shortlog/refs/heads/httpsan | | -- | James A. Peltier | IT Services - Research Computing Group | Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus | Phone : 778-782-6573 | Fax : 778-782-3045 | E-Mail : jpeltier@sfu.ca | Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices | http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier | | | _______________________________________________ | CentOS-devel mailing list | CentOS-devel@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
On 07/29/2011 09:12 AM, James A. Peltier wrote:
Okay I've got some preliminary code that will do it, but I'd like a bit more detail as to how you plan on implementing it. Is there an intention to have a boot.centos.org server for which menu options that a user can choose from is selectable? i.e.
That would be good yes, what sort of a setup is needed behind boot.centos.org ?
and then these choose the ISO from a mirror closest to them or would you just like a CD image that just net boots the appropriate version? What is it that you would like?
Since you are looking into this, why dont you go ahead and make a recommendation - that would be a good place to start from. We can tweak / tune stuff from there onward. In terms of testing things, perhaps a single image that is directly usable would be an easy way to move forward, we can then later see whats involved in working through the mirrorlist.centos.org stuff to have closest-known-good-image come into play. How does that sound ?
- KB
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
That would be good yes, what sort of a setup is needed behind boot.centos.org ?
we can get the sources from boot.fp.o and adjust the sources to centos.
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Karanbir Singh kbsingh@centos.org wrote:
hi guys,
About a year or so back, there was some effort put into getting a CentOS-5 image setup to work off boot.kernel.org and be able to get that install process working. That effort was abandoned since it needed quite a lot of work to be done, and was startig to become massively intrusive. The people involved with that effort, including me, are quite busy with a lot of stuff on the agenda at the moment and I was wondering if anyone would like to pickup CentOS-6 images and see whats needed to make things work off b.k.o
Regards,
- KB
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I have contacted warthog9 and him added centos 6.x into boot.kernel.org
warthog9 asked if someone wants to add centos 6.x live images into boot.kernel.org, if yes, here are git address ->
I can try to do it later if no others interested in doing this.
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On 08/03/2011 11:30 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
I have contacted warthog9 and him added centos 6.x into boot.kernel.org
great! was it literally just a case of listing the distro there ? I seem to remember that the installer, and the initrd needed to be patched at one stage, is that no longer the case ?
Also, I'm still keen to head what James Peltier has to recommend abou the ipxe stuff he has been looking into.
Feel free to go for the livecd's at b.k.o as well :) and if there is anything we need to plumb into the distro-build process at our end, let me know and we can look into that too.
- KB
----- Original Message ----- | On 08/03/2011 11:30 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: | > I have contacted warthog9 and him added centos 6.x into | > boot.kernel.org | > | | great! was it literally just a case of listing the distro there ? I | seem | to remember that the installer, and the initrd needed to be patched at | one stage, is that no longer the case ? | | Also, I'm still keen to head what James Peltier has to recommend abou | the ipxe stuff he has been looking into. | | Feel free to go for the livecd's at b.k.o as well :) and if there is | anything we need to plumb into the distro-build process at our end, | let | me know and we can look into that too. | | - KB
Nope, patching is still required ATM. I've tried the sanboot option even with iPXE and it tanks miserably. This is because once the OS has booted it can't see anything holding the iso image any more. This would likely be the case for b.k.o as well since iPXE is based off of gPXE which b.k.o is working from. I think I have a work-around but not fully tested yet.
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