Re: httpfs support for live cds

2010-11-06 Thread Daniel Reichelt
> as said: if you include the package, httpfs will automatically be > included in the initramfs - not more, not less. Ah - missunderstanding. Thanks for clarifying. > and it's not by default installed in the prebuilt images since it's > considered too experimental for squeeze. Well then, I'm ho

Re: httpfs support for live cds

2010-11-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 11/06/2010 10:07 PM, Daniel Reichelt wrote: >> httpfs is already included by default if you install the package, no >> need to hack anything. > > ??? > > Just loop-mounted the squashfs from both amd64 and i386 Gnome live ISOs > dated 2011-11-05 02:15am and chrooted into them: as said: if you

Re: httpfs support for live cds

2010-11-06 Thread Daniel Reichelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, > httpfs is already included by default if you install the package, no > need to hack anything. ??? Just loop-mounted the squashfs from both amd64 and i386 Gnome live ISOs dated 2011-11-05 02:15am and chrooted into them: r...@sb74:/# dpk

Re: httpfs support for live cds

2010-11-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 11/06/2010 01:34 PM, Daniel Reichelt wrote: > @Maintainers: feature-request > Could you include the httpfs binary by default? httpfs is already included by default if you install the package, no need to hack anything. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Ema

Re: httpfs support for live cds

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Daniel Reichelt wrote: >> Could you state an example of when https would be needed rather than http? > > httpFs wasn't a typo :) Ok, yes I thought that was a typo :) > httpfs allows to mount filesystems via http and is built on top of FUSE, > see http

Re: httpfs support for live cds

2010-11-06 Thread Daniel Reichelt
> Could you state an example of when https would be needed rather than http? httpFs wasn't a typo :) httpfs allows to mount filesystems via http and is built on top of FUSE, see http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/httpfs2 That way one doesn't have to load the whole squashfs image at boot time like

Re: httpfs support for live cds

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Daniel Reichelt wrote: > Hi list, > > I just hacked around a little by taking the current debian live > snapshot, unpacked the initrd image contained in the iso, added the > httpfs binary and its dependency libfuse.so.2, repacked it and voila: I > could

httpfs support for live cds

2010-11-06 Thread Daniel Reichelt
Hi list, I just hacked around a little by taking the current debian live snapshot, unpacked the initrd image contained in the iso, added the httpfs binary and its dependency libfuse.so.2, repacked it and voila: I could boot the squashfs via PXE and initramfs' httpfs=http://... kernel parameter. @