----- Original Message ----- | On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Marian Hettwer <m...@kernel32.de> | wrote: | > Hi Loic, | > | > | > Am 13.08.13 15:43, schrieb � Blot: | > | >> Hello Marian, | >> i think you are right, because bsd.rd is required for last chance | >> to | >> repair system, among others. | >> | > | > right. And I'd like to leave it untouched. This hopefully also | > increases the | > possibility that whatever we come up with might get added | > upstream... ;) | | There's nothing preventing you from building your own installer | within | the RAMDISK kernel. I've done it in the past to handle some | personalized extensions.
This isn't the point though. Debian, RedHat, Suse, all of these OSs include support for network installs by default, no customization of the installer required. OpenBSD does not, but it would be VERY nice if it did, even if it was just noting that it was PXE booting and should look at the location where it PXE booted (a mirror) and then looked for install.netboot for network boot instructions, fetched it and ran it. This wouldn't require any changes on behalf of an end user to make this process happen. If install.netboot doesn't exist, carry on with an interactive install, else fetch it and run it. No building of a custom RAMDISK required. | > I agree that the most pressing point is automatic network | > configuration in | > order to be able to download additional configs, like disk config, | > package | > config, ... | | It's doable within the base tools, if you assemble things correctly. | No reason to not have these stuff off of NFS or TFTP to pull in the | config. There is reason not to do this. HTTP based booting being one of them. VMs without NFS access being another. The complete inability to use NFS due to policy being another. I think the point is that the end user shouldn't have to build/modify the base installer to get this functionality. The diffs presented show that it could be possible and other OSs already offer this. Maybe not on the floppy disk versions but certainly the CD version should offer it. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A successful person is one who can lay a solid foundation from the bricks others have thrown at them.” -David Brinkley via Luke Shaw
