LiveCD creation with kadischi
by J. Hartline
I have built a few LiveCDs and tested them, however I am running into
some problems.
After booting the new LiveCD, I get a metric ton of tar: timestamp is
XXXX amount of time in the future, which may not be critical, but I need
to clean that up, so to provide friends with an acceptable LiveCD.
I also get a touch /.filename failed : Read-Only filesystem error. I
would like some input on that also.
The other problem I face, is that, the CD seems to always start in
runlevel 3, and when I try to switch runlevel to 5 I get some
DriveReadySeek Complete Errors in a loop that cannot be stopped.
My main goal is to build a LiveCD that runs FluxBox, however even Gnome
won't start because of this error.
Thanks for any input, maybe I can work closely with one of you, and be
able to provide a highly customized Fedora-based LiveCD to provide to
some of my friends.
18 years, 7 months
Fedora Core 3 and Kadischi
by Anthony Menasse
Hi ,
I found that in order to get the current version of kadischi working
with FC3 , which comes with python 2.3 i had to change all of the rsplit
string methods to split
After this it worked fine and i was able to build a FC3 live cd on my
FC3 box.
I was going to file this is a bug, but i guess its not really as
kadischi is built for FC4?
FC3 support would be usefull as alot of people are still running FC3 .
Thanks
Anthony
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virtual machine
by Filip Tsachev
> PS: I am using VMWare for prototyping the CD and would highly recommend
> it. As soon as the iso image has been written I can boot it in a virtual
> machine.
probably Xen or qemu could do the same job for free - not that I'm
fully aware of their respective capabilities, the speed running it on
VMWare differs from an actual boot as you know. I'd also like to know
how to make it to ask for/or probe itseft for the amount of ram to
determine the right part for ramdisk and cache.
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18 years, 7 months
Performance
by Glen Eustace
I have been having fun customising my kiosk CD. I may have gone about
things the wrong way but I am making progress.
For most stuff I added a script to post_install_scripts
/usr/share/kadischi/post_install_scripts/99MyStuff.sh
I got a little caught out by some of the other scripts, 05fsclean.py for
example deletes everything from /root, when I had already put files into
using an RPM.
The resulting CD is nearly doing everything I want it to.
It may be worthwhile thinking about how to improve the performance by
coping more stuff into the RAM Disk. In my case there is a trade off
between the initial boot speed and the speed of the application. If it
takes too long to boot because of the copies, the users will get
annoyed. It seems somehow better to have things actually happening on
the screen even though they are a little sluggish to start with.
NB: The kernel does a great job of making things faster by using the
free ram for caching. This again may need some experimentation, maybe
by making the ram disk smaller the kernel can cache more and the overall
performance may be better.
PS: I am using VMWare for prototyping the CD and would highly recommend
it. As soon as the iso image has been written I can boot it in a virtual
machine.
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18 years, 7 months
Re: Fedora-livecd-list Digest, Vol 4, Issue 11
by Filip Tsachev
> glib-gettextize is in glib2-devel, when you install it, everything should be
> OK.
yes, that was it for sure, thanks.
Is the following necessary:
Please add the files
codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
progtest.m4
from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
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18 years, 7 months
