[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Seemingly divergent netboot/disklessrc and livecd/mayflower for initrd, init, etc...

[Bryan J Smith]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> ... because the original developer made the mistake of not working with
> the current mkinitrd first.

Then I'd like to very much correct that, for RHEL 5 to start.  ;)

I do note it's rather legacy.  The init is even bash, not nash.  If you
have recommendations, now's the time to make them.  ;)

> Why not work with backporting existing initrd features, then?

It seems there's quite a bit of assumptions around newer Anaconda
releases that RHEL 5 doesn't ship.  I want to say that's the same
complaint in getting the LTSP client working on RHEL 5 -- the lack of
various init shipped with newer Fedora/Anaconda releases that RHEL 5
lacks.

If I was working on RHEL 6 stuff, I'm there!  But I'm not (let alone my
schedule did not budget for this).  If you have notes, recommendations,
etc... that would let me modify it in short order, I'm all ears.  That
and how to bring those features into mayflower in a way that works for
RHEL 5 Anaconda, PyKickstart, init-scripts, etc...  ;)

> The mayflower stuff was merged in in current Fedora.

I still see it in Rahul's livecd-tools 013-5 in EPEL for RHEL 5.


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