I haven't but I'll take a look. I'm pretty close to finalizing my build system though. I use ruby to parse a JSON manifest and shell out to run the steps I mentioned above (except where there's a native ruby option). It has been a lesson in patience but now we have a pretty customizable build. --tucker On Jun 6, 2013 5:38 AM, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Tucker <junk at gmail.com> wrote: > > Are you trying to PXE boot a RAM based OS image? If so, I've actually > been > > working on something similar. I have a different end goal but I think > the > > fundamental concept is the same. After much monkeying around (including > > basically rolling my own mini Linux distro), I've finally learned enough > to > > get back on track using CentOS as the base. Basically, you just need to > > use yum with the --installroot option, make a customized /init, move a > > couple files into place and cpio the whole thing up. > > > > This is basically what I do for an extremely minimal OS image: > > Have you looked at drbl? http://drbl.sourceforge.net/ > > We use it to boot clonezilla-live isos fpr disk imaging in order to > be able to use recent drivers for the target machines while running > CentOS on the sever. I'm not sure if it is generalized enough to boot > arbitrary isos but it can boot installers or boot into the host OS > with the host system NFS-mounted, and includes menu-driven script > setup. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >