I like this idea! Paul On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 03:39:23PM -0600, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote: > I was considering a "Netboot a LiveCD" article. It would be a much simpler and > shorter guide than the "full enchilada" that I provided in the previous series > and it might suffice for some people's use cases. > > The howto would basically amount to tweaking the syslinux.cfg file on the > downloaded LiveCD to include the "netroot=iscsi:..." parameter and then up > loading the modified iso to the iscsi server. Then you can just use iPXE's > "sanboot" command to netboot it. > > It would mainly be a convenience to sysadmins who wanted a "rescue/installation" > netboot option for their workstations. Though it could also be used for a lab > that just wanted a very basic readonly OS with a browser. Maybe also to > developers who could use an archive of a bunch of older OS's/kernels/browsers > for testing. > > What do you think? > > On Fri, 2019-01-18 at 16:25 -0500, Paul Frields wrote: > > That sounds fair to me, Greg. Do you have some ideas for other content > > you're interested in, whether along the lines of sysadmin solutions or > > something else? > > > > Paul > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 5:05 PM Gregory Lee Bartholomew > > <gregory.lee.bartholomew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 21:27 +0000, WordPress wrote: > > > > Adding a note from last week's meeting -- I think the consensus was that ZFS > > > > and a custom kernel (we think that's required?) were not something the editors > > > > felt we should strongly promote in Fedora, since it means the kernel taint > > > > flag is set. Can this be rethought with another compression option? > > > > > > The kernel does not have to be recompiled, but a module (zfs.ko) does. The > > > module, when loaded, does indeed taint the kernel. Here is the line that > > > displays in my dmesg output: > > > > > > znvpair: module license CDDL taints kernel. > > > > > > There is a "zfs-fuse" package available in the Fedora repositories and a quick > > > online search appears to show that it can be used to boot a zfs root ( > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zfs-fuse/Pngazp3mALw). But the solution > > > looks a bit too hackish for my taste. > > > > > > Here is an explanation of why zfs-fuse package is is allowed in Fedora, but > > > zfs.ko is not: > > > http://warpmech.com/?news=myth-busting-series-zfs-on-linux-has-license-problems > > > > > > Btrfs was mentioned as a possibility, but I am a little weary of it. It looks > > > like RHEL is also deprecating it: > > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.4_release_notes/chap-red_hat_enterprise_linux-7.4_release_notes-deprecated_functionality > > > > > > It looks like there is a possibility that Oracle may someday change the ZFS > > > license: > > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-ZFS-2017-Possibility > > > > > > My intention at the moment is to hold off on doing netboot pt. 5 and maybe > > > revisit the issue if Oracle does update the ZFS license. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
