Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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

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