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