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====== Week 2 ====== === June - 1 === - Checkout httpfs, may be it can be used to mount file-system from server http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/ == My understanding of HTTP boot with HTTPFS == - Download the Linux kernel with fuse support ( or insert fuse module later ) - download initramfs with - fuse module - httpfs executable - Network setup tools and modules script to set root filesystem to the HTTPFS. - Boot with this setup. == My understanding of NFS boot == - Following the link http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/NFS-Root.html for understanding - Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) (CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET) is needed - Correct Ethernet driver (assuming that live-CD will have these things by default ) - CONFIG_NFS_FS is needed for NFS support - Root file system on NFS (CONFIG_ROOT_NFS) --- why? Can't I mount root filesystem from NFS otherwise? and then what I need to do if I want to mount from HTTP? which option to give in that case? - Refering http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/Documentation/nfsroot.txt?v=linux-2.6 ==== Few useful links ==== - http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/net_boot.htm