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- | ====== week 8 ====== | + | ====== week 9 ====== |
+ | Links to the currently open topics | ||
+ | - [[BKODebianISCSI|Debian over iscsi]] | ||
+ | - [[bkodebian|Debian over HTTP]] | ||
+ | - [[ubuntubko|ubuntu revisited]] | ||
+ | - [[fedora11bko|Fedora 11 in BKO]] | ||
===== 20 July ===== | ===== 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. | - 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. | - I will try out that, I was also considering to try NFS with ubuntu and see if it works. | ||
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+ | ===== 21 July ===== | ||
+ | - Got Fedora 11 working over NFS, all logs are on page [[fedora11bko|Fedora 11 in BKO]] | ||
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+ | ===== 22-23 July ===== | ||
+ | Got debian working over ISCSI finally [[BKODebianISCSI|Debian over iscsi]] | ||
+ | - Involved hacking open-iscsi source code for getting it work | ||
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+ | ===== 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. | ||
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+ | ===== 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. | ||
+ | - Located the problem in [[fedora11bko|Fedora 11 HTTPFS booting]] | ||
+ | - 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'' | ||
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