From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vagrant Cascadian Subject: Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:16:25 -0700 Message-ID: <877dz1fn7a.fsf@ponder> References: <2a1045c19652dfa74ed3735a860cb88d@waegenei.re> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58209) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ3dz-0006Fm-Qb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:16:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ3dy-00032Q-PO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:16:35 -0400 Received: from cascadia.aikidev.net ([2600:3c01:e000:267:0:a171:de7:c]:51268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ3dy-0002yn-Jv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:16:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2a1045c19652dfa74ed3735a860cb88d@waegenei.re> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Brice Waegeneire , guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain On 2020-03-30, Brice Waegeneire wrote: > I know it's quite late to submit a GSOC proposal but here it's. > I would like to work on the project suggested by Danny to > add PXE support to Guix. Which has been requested several > times on IRC and in the ML. This would get us a step closer > to provisioning bare bone machines directly from Guix. I was just thinking Guix needed network boot support yesterday! Happy to hear you're looking into it... I've been the LTSP maintainer in Debian for almost 15 years, so have a good amount of experience with network booting. LTSP was rewritten from scratch last year and there might be elements of it useful to you: https://ltsp.org None of it is scheme code, but there are possibly some useful ideas in there you could make use of. One of the big changes is making extensive use of iPXE, though that might need some further auditing to meet the FSDG (Free Software Distribution Guidelines?) for inclusion into Guix. live well, vagrant --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQRlgHNhO/zFx+LkXUXcUY/If5cWqgUCXoJ9ygAKCRDcUY/If5cW qjZgAQCcmaukwE/ZxLxy1urWqGhAubbJKvviPJeoGjn4ztUrrwEAvsiI3nvJ4icm spQeSrij16W3JeI16oQiyiBN4ucVggU= =xGoV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--