Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/26 Pravin : > Hi, > > 2009/9/26 Michal Suchanek : >> >> >> What libraries did you copy? >> > Here are the libraries copied. > http://boot.kernel.org/bko/live/debian/initmod/libs/ > > There might be few more libraries copied than needed. I guess you need some of the libnss stuff. Probably l

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-26 Thread Pravin
Hi, 2009/9/26 Michal Suchanek : > > debian-live should use the address specified with ip= and try dhcp otherwise. > > There are two reasons for this. Trying dhcp on a network that does not > have a dhcp server takes a long time because the dhcp client would go > through several increasing timeouts

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-26 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/26 Pravin : > Hi Michal, > I got few quick questions about how networking. > > What I want to do is to check if dhcp networking is present or not. > In case, dhcp fails, I would fallback to "${STATICIP}" which comes > from "ip=" boot parameter. > > but I am having some problems in reliably c

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-25 Thread Pravin
Hi Michal, I got few quick questions about how networking. What I want to do is to check if dhcp networking is present or not. In case, dhcp fails, I would fallback to "${STATICIP}" which comes from "ip=" boot parameter. but I am having some problems in reliably confirming if ipconfig has failed.

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/9 Pravin : > Hi, > > 2009/9/7 Michal Suchanek : >> >> All moinpoints have to be moved under /root for run-init to work so I >> added one more move since unpacking an iso requires an additional >> mountpoint. >> > > I tested your patch. > It works :-) > There was only small timing issue as  a

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-09 Thread Pravin
Hi, 2009/9/7 Michal Suchanek : > > All moinpoints have to be moved under /root for run-init to work so I > added one more move since unpacking an iso requires an additional > mountpoint. > I tested your patch. It works :-) There was only small timing issue as after doing "modprobe fuse" the "/de

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/4 Michal Suchanek : > Hello > > 2009/9/2 Daniel Baumann : >> [ CC'ed to ensure you're not missing the answer ;), will follow up on >> list only though. ] >> >> Pravin wrote: >>> I also managed to boot debian over iscsi. >>> I had to add open-iscsi tools into initramfs for enabling iscsi boot

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello 2009/9/2 Daniel Baumann : > [ CC'ed to ensure you're not missing the answer ;), will follow up on > list only though. ] > > Pravin wrote: >> I also managed to boot debian over iscsi. >> I had to add open-iscsi tools into initramfs for enabling iscsi booting, >> but booting over iscsi is 3 ti

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello Thanks for the patch. It is quite large, probably because it contains scripts shipped in one of the iscsi client packages. It also hardcodes a nameserver. Is there no parameter for nameserver yet? Can't it be obtained from dhcp? The iscsi names are also hardcoded. Shouldn't these be speci

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-03 Thread Pravin
Hi, Thanks for interest :-) > > i would be very, very much interested in patches to live-initramfs to > make iscsi booting out-of-the-box possible, and to live-manual to > document it. > I have created small patch for live-manual to which will give basic idea about how to use httpfs and iscsifs b

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
[ CC'ed to ensure you're not missing the answer ;), will follow up on list only though. ] Pravin wrote: > I also managed to boot debian over iscsi. > I had to add open-iscsi tools into initramfs for enabling iscsi booting, > but booting over iscsi is 3 times faster than booting over HTTPFS :-) i

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-08-21 Thread Pravin
Hi Michal, Sorry that I missed this email in other mails and hence could not update you on my progress. Finally I managed to boot debien live over HTTPFS with ISO. I used unmodified httpfs for this purpose. I also managed to boot debian over iscsi. I had to add open-iscsi tools into initramfs for

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-08-12 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, Sorry about the late reply. 2009/7/17 Pravin : > Hi, > I am working on booting Debian over http, and I faced few problems and > I attempted to solve them. > Following is the approach I took and the the questions I have. > I hope that you will find this work useful. > > I have been trying t