Bug 244197

Summary:	PXE bootable LiveCD
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Fabio Bettoni <fabio.bettoni>
Component:	LiveCD	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Version:	7	CC:	dcantrell, katzj, triage, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Fabio Bettoni 2007-06-14 14:04:33 UTC

Hi,

it should be a nice enhancement to boot from network the LiveCD, like Fedora 
installation DVD or Knoppix terminal server.

vmlinux and initrd should be provided with network and nfs drivers to nfsmount 
the directory containing squashfs.img

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-09-13 15:24:55 UTC

When we move over to the stock initrd infrastructure, this starts to get a lot
more doable.  All the groundwork is laid for that and I suspect we'll make the
switch for Fedora 9.

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Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2008-05-29 20:29:10 UTC

If you have sufficient memory, you can now do this with the livecd-iso-to-pxe
script in livecd-tools.  And other similar things can be accomplished with the
ltsp toolset.  Directly supporting this isn't something that is likely to go
into the main livecd initrd anytime soon.