Suggestion: Define temporary directory
by Sebastian Vahl
Hi.
Since livecd-creator is using variable temporary directories
under /var/tmp/livecd-creator-* it is not possible anymore to use a link to
another partition. But especially when creating dvds I do not have enough
free space in /var/tmp.
So it would be nice to have an option to define the temporary directory that
should be used.
Or am I missing something here?
Sebastian
17 years
Suggestion: Submenu in isolinux for locales
by Sebastian Vahl
Hi.
Don't know if this is possible with isolinux: It would be much easier
for non-english users if they could choose their language at the
bootmenu. I know that they could attach eg. "live_locale=de_DE.UTF-8".
But a menu or submenu for non-experienced users would be the best, I
think.
Sebastian
17 years
Fix yum to not look at host config
by Mark McLoughlin
Hey,
So, I've been seeing two symptoms which suggested that yum was looking
at the hosts config/cache, when clearly the code is trying it's best not
to:
1) If a repo in the host's config was broken, it would die in
doConfigSetup() - e.g. if the host which the repo is on couldn't
be contacted
2) The livecd repos were clearly being at least partly cached outside
the install root - e.g. because /var/cache/yum/a-dev gets created.
Attached is a patch which fixes this, I think. It writes out its own
yum.conf so that the host's repos never get initialised and uses the
installroot config item which seems to do a better job of restricting
yum to the install root.
Oh, another side effect is that you can now use a repo called
fedora-development :-)
There's one fly in the ointment, though - now that we're properly
caching in the install root, we hit a bug whereby we can't tell yum to
close these caches before we unmount. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/236409
The second patch I've attached is a pretty brute force workaround for
this.
Cheers,
Mark.
17 years
[Patch] setting root password
by Jeroen van Meeuwen
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This is an attempt to fix being able to set the root password from
kickstart.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
- -kanarip
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17 years
[SCRIPT] simple tool for finding large removable packages
by Jane Dogalt
I don't know if this will help anyone, but here is a script I wrote/use
to help me find which packages I might want to remove from a livecd
spin.
Basically it reverse sorts the installed packages by size, and gives
you the package info, as well as which/how-many packages depend on it
(and their size).
I.e. from an example run on a system, here is the first few lines of
output- (and the thing it tells me immediately is that gimp-help is
huge, nothing depends on it, and it's probably the first candidate for
removal. Of course, what I'd like it to also tell me is that gimp-help
has something to do with an image manipulation program, but the rpm
desc is a little deficient in that regard IMO)
========================================================================
(203.48MB) openoffice.org-core is NOT removable
------------------------------------------------------------------------
number of packages that are dependent: 7
biggest deps are
openoffice.org-calc(14.81MB)
openoffice.org-writer(5.78MB)
openoffice.org-impress(4.28MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
package description: openoffice.org-core-2.0.2-5.12.2
core libraries and support files for openoffice.org
========================================================================
========================================================================
(64.05MB) gimp-help is removable
------------------------------------------------------------------------
package description: gimp-help-2-0.1.0.10.0.fc5.1
The GIMP User Manual is a newly written User Manual for the GIMP.
========================================================================
========================================================================
(61.25MB) glibc-common is NOT removable
------------------------------------------------------------------------
number of packages that are dependent: 2
biggest deps are
glibc(11.66MB)
redhat-lsb(.02MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
package description: glibc-common-2.4-8
...
...
and so on... (consider the script GPL)
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17 years
Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Booting Test Live-cds fails
by Ahm ed
>On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:53 -0400, Ahm ed wrote:
>> I have tried ALL the Test live-cds (from 1 to 3) And on everyone the
>> cds have failed to boot up. Apparently something to do with either no
>> /dev/root or modprobe not finding something. I am told this is related
>> to the new PATA implementation in the Linux kernel. This is not a
>> fedora specific bug. However I would have expected their to be a fix
>> for this in fedora. Especially this long after the bug manifested
>> itself. Has there been any work on this lately? How far has it gotten?
>> At this rate Fedora has essentially become useless on my comp. as I
>> cannot even boot to install it. The only way I know how is to install
>> a minimal fc6 and upgrade. Which still doesn't fix the problem as I am
>> force to stick to FC6 kernels. Any news?
>Have you filed a bug including the details of your hardware? Otherwise,
>it's really hard to be able to figure out exactly what's broken.
>Jeremy
No, I have not. Because on checking this bug tracker
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=Fedora7LiveCD
and many of the problems stated here are essentially the same thing
that I was facing.
I was told the no /dev/root problem is now "fixed". But it appears
that it has not been. Or that it was fixed yet there was another
problem that came in. I believe it has something to do with the issues
addressed here. http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/72836.html
17 years
Booting Test Live-cds fails
by Ahm ed
Hello,
I have tried ALL the Test live-cds (from 1 to 3) And on everyone the
cds have failed to boot up. Apparently something to do with either no
/dev/root or modprobe not finding something. I am told this is related
to the new PATA implementation in the Linux kernel. This is not a
fedora specific bug. However I would have expected their to be a fix
for this in fedora. Especially this long after the bug manifested
itself. Has there been any work on this lately? How far has it gotten?
At this rate Fedora has essentially become useless on my comp. as I
cannot even boot to install it. The only way I know how is to install
a minimal fc6 and upgrade. Which still doesn't fix the problem as I am
force to stick to FC6 kernels. Any news?
17 years
how to set root password?
by pseudo vector
Hi,
I'm trying to use livecd-creator to make a "permanent" system that
sits outside of a firewall (i.e. it's assigned a non-dhcp ip address,
runs ssh for users that need to get into our internal network).
I can not get root login to work though. I have the following lines in
my livecd-conf file:
# update user info
echo 'root:$1$ncO9QrXs$.f63DbXQniCX41Pb8gMD1' | chpasswd -e
passwd -S root
useradd -c "SNOOPY User Account" -m -n \
-p '$1$2OOvrGlY$M3tBJfc9gfKvThcmqnOgo1' snoopy
pwconv
When I boot the livecd though root logins fail with:
login: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname=LOGIN
uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost= user=root
login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR root, Authentication failure
The snoopy user account works fine though (and I can't su to root from
that account).
I've verified by looking at the livecd image that the password is set
properly in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. /etc/securetty is also ok.
How does one go about getting root logins on the livecd?
Thanks in advance for any replys.
17 years
