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Broad plan for this week is.
  - Make the proper git setup.
  - Modify the setup to directly use git repositories using symbilic links.
  - Add server Address parameter to initram.
  - Suppress all warnings.
  - Make Europe and US entries in DSL.
  - Make knoppix boot over http.
  - 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.)

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