On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 18:51 -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Outside of those changes, everything looks pretty straight-forward and
> reasonable. We'll want a little more error checking in
> livecd-iso-to-disk and it might also be nice to have another tool that
> lets you create your usb stick to use with the actual cd form (I did
> this by hand and it was pretty nice that I could easily get it
> working!).
I didn't really slow down and read this bit at first- So you actually
used the livecd+usb form? I probably tried that once when I first wrote
the code, but haven't even considered it since then. I guess you must
have by hand added something like overlay=UUID=bla to the kernel
cmdline. Of course the original incarnation of the patch supported the
syntax overlay=auto which would scan all drives. But that code scares
my responsibility-averse nature, and I was happy to remove it when
focusing on the liveusb case. And also there was a bunch of related
bash junk for dealing with finding multiple overlays.
Yep, I remember the auto bits as well. While at the time, I think I was
pushing you towards it, I think I'm now with you on the being
conservative. It was pretty easy to set up to use an external drive,
though. I had a partition with a dos filesystem, created the
LiveOS/Fedora-8-Live-i686- file and booted with overlay=LABEL=foo (which
was the label of my filesystem).
Jeremy