[CentOS-devel] Boot.Kernel.Org and CentOS

Fri Jul 29 08:12:25 UTC 2011
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>

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
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| 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
| 
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