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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. It seems I am missing many things here, let me try out [[wiki:BootOverNFS|booting over NFS]] first == Problems with mounting with httpfs == [[HttpFSProbs]] I am able to mount but the problem I am facing is that file is mounted as nosuid,nodev, which does not allow further mounting. <code> $ ./httpfs http://127.0.0.1/dsl.iso ./test $ mount httpfs on /home/pravin/Etherboot/v2/httpfs/test type fuse.httpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=pravin) $ sudo losetup /dev/loop0 ./test/dsl.iso ./test/dsl.iso: Permission denied $ sudo mount -o loop,ro ./test/dsl.iso mpoint/ ./test/dsl.iso: Permission denied </code> Finally, the problem is solved with leson learned. __FUSE allows only the user to see the content of mounted partition who have mounted the partition__ \\ The mistake that I was doing was, I was running //./httpfs// without //sudo// but I was trying to mount the partition with //sudo// few worries : - If FUSE is used to mount root partition, then when actual user logs in, he may not see any of those files as they are mounted by root. - Need to find FUSE option which will allow everyone to see the file. - httpfs program does not accept any option :-(, How can I pass options ? PS: One way out can be that, root mounts iso over HTTP, then uses the local loop to mount that ISO. I guess that, the ISO mounted by root is mounted using normal mount command, and hence should be readable by all. and can also support other mount options if needed. \\ I have not done this experiment yet, need to confirm before proceeding on this path. === June - 2 === Done nothing useful, just some random reading === June - 3 === - Writing PHP code to support booting and using pxelinux from machines with static IP address.\\ - Stuck with issue of permissions regarding opening files in write mode :-( === June -4 === - Suddenly enlightened by the memory that I have code for rom-o-matic :-) - Got it running on my machine. - Wrote and sent the patch so that it will be easy to host rom-o-matic on any machine. - Patched rom-o-matic is hosted at http://www.alien.doesntexist.org/rom-o-matic/ ==== Few useful links ==== - http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/net_boot.htm
