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====== Adding DSL to pxeKnife ======
Initially, I will add just menu entry, kernel and initramfs. I plan to modify initramfs later to support http mounting.

===== HTTP mounting =====
This will involve following things.
  - Add FUSE module to initramfs.
  - Add httpfs to initramfs.
  - Add losetup to initramfs.
  - Do mounting.

===== Useful links =====
  - Useful link regarding knoppix [[http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto]]
  - Reference for modifying minirt24 [[http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto#For_5.3.1_the_file_system_in_minirt_changed_to_ramfs.]]
===== Following Example =====
Following the example from [[http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/net_boot.htm]], but facing few problems.

  - httpfs is failing with error 
<code>
fusermount: failed open /dev/fuse : no such file or directory
</code>
When I did //ls// on ///dev/fuse// I got following output
<code>
/dev/fuse ??
</code>
Note: the //ls// used in this case is from initramfs and hence may not handle extreme cases properly.\\

==== Solution ====
It seems, I need to create ///dev/fuse// myself.
When I did 
<code>
# ls -l /KNOPPIX/dev/fuse
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   10, 229 May 22 2006 /KNOPPIX/dev/fuse
</code>
and created the node with
<code>
mknod fuse c 10 229
</code>
with this, I am able to mount the remote KNOPPIX.

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