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 ====== Week 8 ====== ====== Week 8 ======
-  - FAQ script integration +  - <del>FAQ script integration</​del>​ 
-  - Troubleshooting script integration +  - <del>Troubleshooting script integration.</​del>​ 
-  - List of network drivers supported +  - iscsiboot for fedora. 
-  - Get the list of network drivers supported by knoppix +  - List of network drivers supported. 
-  - iscsiboot for fedora +  - Get the list of network drivers supported by knoppix. 
-  - Improve the menu of syslinux with context help +  - <del>Improve the menu of syslinux with context help.</​del>​ 
-  - boot ubuntu in debian way +  - <​del> ​boot ubuntu in debian way.</​del>​ Did not worked :-/ 
-  - debian ISO boot +  - <​del> ​debian ISO boot.</​del>​ 
-  - email fedora guys +  - <​del> ​email fedora guys.</​del>​ 
-  - email ubuntu+  - email ubuntu ​guys about problem.
  
 ===== 13 July ===== ===== 13 July =====
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   - Added script based faq.html and Trobbleshooting.html page   - Added script based faq.html and Trobbleshooting.html page
     - I am still not happy with Troubbleshotting page. I feel that the content of that page should be on faq.html page     - I am still not happy with Troubbleshotting page. I feel that the content of that page should be on faq.html page
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 +===== 16 July =====
 +  - Attemted to use iscsi for booting, but I need some more information before I can proceed with it.
 +     - Was refering to this howto [[http://​iscsi-init.sourceforge.net/​HOWTO.html]]  ​
 +       - But it was confusing me a bit, It needed ''​iscsi-module'',​ which I could not find in ''/​lib/​modules''​ of fedora 11 live cd.so I decided to try something else.
 +       - Found link [[http://​www.eludicate.com/​~bolen/​iscsi/​]] ​ which looks more promising.
 +  - Updated the BKO boot menu for using context sensetive help. All menues are not updated, but important one are updated. It still needs some more work.
 +  - Added ubuntu target based on ''​filesystem.squashfs''​ instead of ''​.iso''​ in debian menu. So, debiean kernel and debian initramfs tries to use ubuntu ''​filesystem.squashfs''​. It boots sucessfully but gets confused after some time and keeps doing same thing again and again. It keeps looping inside step ''​Generating locales...''​ and never completes it. [[bkodebian]]
 +     - I was thinking about creating seperate initrd with ''​run-init''​ from ubuntu.
 +  - Modified the code of ubuntu ''​casper''​ script to support mount ''​filesystem.squashfs''​ instead of ''​.iso'',​ this gives different error when I mount ''​.iso''​. Error is ''​run-init:​ nuking initramfs contents: Directory not empty''​
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 +===== 17 July =====
 +  - Revisted the ubuntu booting issue, make some progress, but still I am not able to boot it [[ubuntubko|ubuntu revisited]]
 +  - Now I completely understand [[http://​www.kernel.org/​doc/​Documentation/​filesystems/​ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt]] and how each and every line of this documenation is affecting me :-/
 +
 +===== 18 July =====
 +  - Sent email to fedora-live mailing list. Lets hope that we get some help on that front.
 +  - Worked mostly on booting [[BKODebianISCSI|Debian over iscsi]]
 +     - Chose debian because the squashfs of debian works fine and there are no other problems.
 +     - Also, all the kernel modules needed for iscsi initiator are inside initramfs so, less work for me. :-)
 +     - No considerable success yet :-(
 +
 +===== 19 July =====
 +  - Contiued the iscsi saga without much success, I need to add iscsi initiator into initram and get it working.
 +    - I do have added it but unfortunately it is not working :-(
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