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-==== June - 15 ==== +Broad plan for this week is. 
-Plan for today is +  - Make the proper git setup. -- Done
-  - Make the proper git setup. ​Add script changes to it. +  Modify ​the setup to directly use git repositories using symbilic links. -- done but only in my laptop, need to repeat it for alien and rom
-     Re-created and updated the repository for gpxe code modifications[[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​gpxe.git;​a=tree]] +  - Add server Address parameter to initram. -- done. 
-     ​Created and updated ​the repository for rom-o-matic-BKO.net code. [[http://git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​rom-o-matic-BKO.git;​a=tree]] +  - Suppress all warnings. -- Done 
-     - Created ​and updated the repository for BKO code[[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​BKO.git;​a=tree]] +  - Use ISO insead of KNOPPIX file -- Done 
-  - Add server Address parameter to initram +  - Make Europe and US entries in DSL. 
-  - Make Europe and US entries in DSL +  - Make knoppix boot over http. 
-  - Make knoppix boot over http +  - Send patch to knoppix guys for discussions
-  - Send patch to knoppix guys for discussions+  - Get ubuntu on BKO 
 +  - Add documentation about how one can use BKO.
    
 +==== June - 15 ====
 +Today I worked on getting up my repositories.
 +  - Made the proper git setup. Add script changes to it.
 +     - Re-created and updated the repository for gpxe code modifications. [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​gpxe.git;​a=tree|gpxe.git]]
 +     - Created and updated the repository for rom-o-matic-BKO.net code. [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​rom-o-matic-BKO.git;​a=tree|rom-o-matic-BKO.git]]
 +     - Created and updated the repository for BKO code. [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​BKO.git;​a=tree|BKO.git]]
 +
 +==== June - 16 ====
 +  - Created and [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​BKO.git;​a=commit;​h=775303ad1ce94f5e61f54875d283bb01e64ccb13|commited]] a script called [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​BKO.git;​a=blob;​f=pxeknife/​dsl/​generate_minirt24.sh;​h=416c1e3738c5cce3c713378996a2d616882b0568;​hb=775303ad1ce94f5e61f54875d283bb01e64ccb13|generate_minirt24.sh]] which will automatically create the //​minirt24.gz//​ from original //​minirt24.gz_orig//​
 +  - Added srv_ip parameter to booting in [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​BKO.git;​a=commit;​h=8b2d95c573a884f923547b00496fd875aef1e5ea|commit]].
 +  - Till now, I was mounting the root filesystem extracted directly from dsl.iso. Now I want to mount entire dsl.iso, but having trobbles because ​
 +     the busybox mount does not support -o loop option and losetup is not there in busybox :-(
 +  - Performance measurements for dsl [[DSLBKO]] (Note: its far from complete)
 +
 +==== June - 17 ====
 +  - Finally fixed the problem of mounting ISO in initram [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​BKO.git;​a=commit;​h=dc692f49baac90c3c2289e81cb820027ba2161f9|commit]].
 +     - dsl provided mount does not support //-o loop// option and they dont provide //losetup// either.
 +     - And to make my life more interesting,​ the busybox mount is very particular about the order in which you give parameters :-/.
 +  - One more problem faced was that file mounted by httpfs is read-only and hence can't be mounted by //mount -o loop// command in normal modes. It has to be mounted in read-only mode with option //-o loop -o ro//. (Thanks Andytim for suggestion of using "​dd"​. It helped in locating the bug.)
 +  - One more wired observation : I could not locate the the mount used by dsl by default inside minirt24.gz. I checked the static folder, but it was not there. but when I execute mount, it picks up the default //"​mount"//​ which behaves quite differently than the command //"​busybox mount"//​ which is working for me at end.
 +  - Seperated the http mount related code into //"​mount_http_iso.sh"//​ [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​BKO.git;​a=commit;​h=e95e4c43ed8307155926fcbe6967b82492122179|commit here]]
 +  - Created seperate entries for US, EUROPE. [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​BKO.git;​a=commit;​h=5cef3ea42f1fef9cf1df113384f8462ef50e5efd|commit here]]
 +
 +==== June - 18 ==== 
 +Spent most of the time in two things. ​
 +  - Getting the modules, executable for 2.6.19 kernel used by knoppix. I am still trying to hunt down fuse.ko which is to be found no-where in entire ISO :-( 
 +  - I was also working on adding more details to BKO homepage, Added following things. ​
 +    - FAQ for BKO. 
 +    - Started to write HOWTO for making BKO bootable USB.
 +
 +==== June - 19 ==== 
 +  - Heard about andytim'​s patch for httpdisk, I was thinking, how is it going to affect me and BKO development.
 +  - Came across link for [[http://​unit.aist.go.jp/​itri/​knoppix/​http-fuse/​index-en.html|HTTP-FUSE-LINUX]] which seems same as what I am doing. It seems that they have done little more than what we have planed. I am not sure how badly this is going to affect BKO.
 +  - Problem in creation of initramfs [[InitramFSBKO]]
 +
 +==== June - 20 ====
 +  - Finally got the Knoppix working on BKO. I have done some basic testing and it seems it is working fine. [[http://​git.etherboot.org/?​p=people/​pravin/​BKO.git;​a=commit;​h=976e5350638ad848e45e549cefa9970eafeb7378|commit hash]]
 +  - Fixed some small bugs in BKO.

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