Bug#584277: live-helper: building net fails for non-nfs root

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 3 June 2010 07:21, Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> wrote:
> retitle 584277 please add httpfs/wget to --net-root-filesystem
> severity 584277 wishlist
> thanks
>
> On 06/02/2010 10:50 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> live-helper should be able to generate a netboot tarball with
>> configuration for any kind of filesystem live-initramfs supports so that
>> the user can just unpack the tarball on the server and point the tftp
>> and filesystem servers at the appropriate parts of the tarball.
>
> for both httpfs and wget, the user can build a regular (non netboot)
> image and copy binary/* to the server. don't know if it's worths do add
> a distinct output format for that.
>

binary/* does not contain the pxelinux configuration and this is why
my images would not boot from httpfs with the new live-initramfs but
would boot from CD. There was a parameter missing in the on-server
configuration and there is no way how it would be updated from the
binary/* content.

Thanks

Michal