[Bug 1660206] Re: Make casper capable of fetching filesystem.squashfs through http

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Title:
  Make casper capable of fetching filesystem.squashfs through http

Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Playing with PXE boot the Ubuntu Live CD works when using NFS.

  Downside with NFS is that it isnt firewall friendly (out of the box)
  and after the boot completes the client still requires access to the
  NFS share.

  A great fix would be if casper becomes capable of fetching
  filesystem.squashfs through http during boot. This way no NFS is
  needed and once booted the squashfs is then located in the system RAM
  so no more network activity is needed (when starting applications in
  the live CD environment).

  The following page have provided a patch for this but it would be
  great if this patch can be part of the official behaviour of casper:

  https://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/20090127/pxe-
  boot#comment-25776

  Related info:

  https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=136596

  The patch above is also included with this report.

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