week 9
Links to the currently open topics
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20 July
Someone from fedora mailing list suggested to use NFS instead of httpfs, and test if ext4-fs related errors do disappear or not.
I will try out that, I was also considering to try NFS with ubuntu and see if it works.
21 July
22-23 July
Got debian working over ISCSI finally Debian over iscsi
Involved hacking open-iscsi source code for getting it work
24 July
Tried to used ISCSI for ubuntu, but ubuntu is still not ready to boot over network.
By looking at obstacles, It seems that that it is not at all designed to boot over network.
The NFS option of Ubuntu can be tried once, to see if it works.
25 July
Worked on BKO configuration script, which will generate proper .conf
files needed by BKO for all distributions.
Configuration script is based on bash
and perl
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26 July
Had weekly meeting.
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Now fedora 11 can be booted over http, but process is not entirely automated. Needs manual intervention for removing network
and NetworkManager
Located a race condition between ISO mounting and loopback mounting inside fedora booting process, fixed it by using sleep 5
Fixed the Ubuntu HTTP booting problem by removing network
and NetworkManager