On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 05:24 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:56 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> For example, I'd like to use my own local repositories (I
>>> work with custom systems that aren't 100% in the public trees).
>>> How do I modify the kickstart file to handle this?
>> Repositories to use are defined by the 'repo' lines. You can use
>> something like
>> repo --name=foo --baseurl=http://some.web.site.com/path/to/my/repo
>> repo --name=bar --baseurl=file:///path/to/a/local/one
>> repo --name=baz --mirrorlist=http://some.site.com/path/to/mirrorlist
>>
>> Baseurl and mirrorlist are used exactly as they are with yum.
> This helped and I was able to build an image. Sadly, it failed
> with the oft-reported problem of not finding the CDROM root device
> (no CDROM driver in image?) I need to investigate this some.
Some macs are apparently still using old IDE; I added ide-cd to the list
of modules being pulled in earlier to account for this
>>> Also, I'm interested in building a LiveCD for PowerPC (that's
>>> my target base). I assume that I need to do this from a PPC
>>> host? Is there any other magic required?
>> Correct. Also, the ppc support may have bugs and only boot on a small
>> subset of ppc platforms. It's had very little in the way of testing. I
>> pushed a few little fixes for it today.
> Thanks for the info. Forgive an outsider's question, but how can I
> access these changes (read only GIT pull would be fine)?
You can get an anonymous clone of current git via
git clone
git://git.fedoraproject.org/hosted/livecd
Perfect - I updated to the GIT version and now it boots on
my two test systems. Now, on to the interesting work of
getting it to go on my non-standard platforms :-)
Thanks
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