Hey
I would be happy to maintain such a thing but I would need someone as a backup.
Cheers Didi
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: J.H. warthog19@eaglescrag.net Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [BKO] CentOS for boot.kernel.org To: Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann ribalba@gmail.com Cc: bko@hera.kernel.org
Didi,
I assume you mean with respect to the live images as opposed to the network installers (since we already support CentOS as a network install target).
As for the live image there's a couple of things that would need to be figured out, (1) does the live image already support iscsi out of the box and (2) does it already support httpfs out of the box.
(1) is possible, (2) I'm guessing is it doesn't, and likely never will officially. If the live image doesn't already support booting off of an iscsi target than adding it should be trivial, if it doesn't than we'll have to hack into the initrd and add it. It's not a *huge* change but it means the following to the initrd:
adding: - networking into the initrd - iscsid - iscsiadm - lib files for dns resolution
and then it's just a few small adjustments to the init script so that it brings up the iscsi interface, and puts the image in the right place before letting it plow forward as normal.
Probably the most useful, to us, is if the kernel + initrd were separate like they are for the normal pxe installs but that's not a requirement by any stretch.
I suppose the question ultimately becomes, is this something the CentOS project is interested in generally providing or are we looking at specific support for BKO? Just trying to figure out if we are going to end up in the having to forward port the changes continually on new releases or if this is something that CentOS is willing to pick up and maintain.
- John "Warthog9" Hawley
Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote:
Hey
I was wondering if I could help to get a CentOS image on boot.kernel
Would be really nice to have more bistros available.
Cheers Didi
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