smallest livecd installaion
by Veaceslav Grecea
Hello.
I'd like to ask whether is it possible to create a smallest livecd
installation image.
We need one within 5-10 Mb.
Only coreutils, bash, kernel and ssh-client, and some more due to packages
dependencies.
All our experiments lead to results ~100Mb image size.
Thank you.
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best regards,
slavutich
14 years, 7 months
mkisofs options
by Patrice Guay
By default, mkisofs is called with some predefined arguments in
/imgcreate/live.py:
args = ["/usr/bin/mkisofs",
"-J", "-r",
"-hide-rr-moved", "-hide-joliet-trans-tbl",
"-V", self.fslabel,
"-o", iso]
Is there a reason why the -T option is not passed to mkisofs? From the
mkisofs man page:
-T Generate a file TRANS.TBL in each directory on the CDROM,
which
can be used on non-Rock Ridge capable systems to help
establish
the correct file names. There is also information
present in
the file that indicates the major and minor numbers for
block
and character devices, and each symlink has the name
of the
link file given.
I encountered some systems where the use of this option was the only way
to make the LiveCD boot.
Thanks,
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Patrice
14 years, 7 months
How to add wallpaper & Firefox start page to live CD
by Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi,
How can I add my custom wallpaper (and set it to default) in live CD?
I tested
gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename myimg.png
but it did not work. Another question will also come: How can add that png file to live cd?
Similar question comes for Firefox: How can I set my default page there?
Regards,
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14 years, 8 months
selinux set to permissive in kickstart, but ISO says it's in enforcing mode
by Peter Scheie
I'm trying to build a Centos livecd that will mostly call anaconda with
a kickstart file on an http server. I modified the
centos-livecd-minimal.ks file, first adding system-config-network-tui to
the %packages section to get networking, and the resulting ISO worked
fine. Next I added anaconda to the %packages section. But the
resulting ISO kernel panics saying "Unable to load SELinux Policy.
Machine is in enforcing mode." I don't really need selinux for my
purposes, so I changed the selinux setting in the ks file to
--permissive, but I still get the same panic. Any ideas as to why the
permissive setting isn't being picked up? Or what about adding anaconda
(which admittedly adds a bunch of other packages) made it stop loading
the policy file? Thanks.
Peter
14 years, 8 months
livecd-creator used to work on centos 5, now giving "syslinux not installed" error
by Peter Scheie
A couple weeks ago I used the instructions at
https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/ to create a live CD of CentOS
5. I did this on a Centos 5.3 virtual machine running under VirtualBox
running on top of Ubuntu, at my office. I did the same thing at home on
my laptop. In both cases I was able to create the minimal livecd and
the full destkop livecd. Then I went on vacation for three weeks. When
I got back, I tried to create another livecd image, using the same
command, to just refresh my memory of what I'd been working on. Here's
the command I used:
LANG=C livecd-creator --config=centos-livecd-minimal.ks
--fslabel=CentOS-minimal
But this time, I got the following error:
Error creating Live CD : syslinux not installed : no suitable *menu.c32
found
I tried it at home as well and got the same error. I've got syslinux
3.36-4.2 installed, including menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32. Any ideas as
to what would have changed that would cause livecd-creator to break, or
how to fix it? Thanks.
Peter
14 years, 8 months