Did I misunderstand what James asked? It sounded like he wanted to add
a whole bunch of additional packages to the standard LiveCD's in order
to allow building out-of-tree kernel modules. If this is the case then
the answer is NO because:
1) It is not a priority of Fedora to support proprietary kernel modules
(ndiswrapper). (Aside from that, can you even use ndiswrapper reliably
with Fedora's 4KB kernel stacks?)
2) Doing so would bloat the LiveCD's much larger than the limits that
would fit onto a CD.
If someone wants to do this for their own personal LiveCD they are free
to do whatever they want.
Warren
Tim Wood wrote:
I can try and draft a kickstart (even if it's not up to me to
include it
in livecd-tools proper). Looking at what you've got below, I can think
of two issues. First, the minimal image on F8 doesn't allow login so
I'll have to work around that. Second, the list below is not the
complete list of needed packages for a LiveCD so I'll have to work out
the packages to include. James, if I do come up with a kickstart, would
you be willing to test it. Also, does anyone have any other
thoughts/warnings before I start hacking?
Tim
James Gallagher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please can you include a minimal development
> envrionment on the LiveCD release, in F8 it's less
> than 20mb, the files required are
>
>
> binutils-2.17.50.0.18-1.i386.rpm
> gcc-4.1.2-33.i386.rpm
> glibc-devel-2.7-2.i386.rpm
> glibc-headers-2.7-2.i386.rpm
> kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i686.rpm
> kernel-headers-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i386.rpm
> libgomp-4.1.2-33.i386.rpm
> make-3.81-10.fc8.i386.rpm
> patch-2.5.4-30.fc8.i386.rpm
>
>
> This enables installing ndiswrapper, madwifi drivers
> etc without an internet connection
>
> Cheers :)
>
> James
>
>
>
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