Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] some questions on making a LiveCD

Greetings, ----- Original Message ----- > 1. How do I get slim to start up in the LiveCD boot. I have been > using the fedora-livecd-lxde.ks as a template. Before Fedora 17, I > used > to put the following in my kickstart file: > > # create /etc/sysconfig/desktop (needed for installation) > cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop <<EOF > PREFERRED=/usr/bin/pekwm > DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/slim-dynwm > EOF > > I noticed that slim has moved from sbin/ to bin/ so I made the change, > but I can not get this to start up when booting from a LiveCD. How do I > get this to start up? I tried including systemctl enable slim but I > still can not get it to display the Login Manager. (I do get the text > prompt.) How do I fix this? Yes, systemd has taken over and you set the display manager by enabling it. So your systemctl enable slim.service should do it assuming there is a systemd target file for slim.

> 2. I have a few rpms of my own i would like to include in the > LiveCD. How can this be done? Are there examples somewhere that I > could look at? That's easy. Just take your rpms and put them in a web accessible directory, cd to that directory and run "createrepo .". Of course you need to have createrepo installed for that to work. Then just add a reference for your new repo in your kickstart file just like your other repos... and then add your packages to your package list. If you don't have a webserver handy you can do it on the same system with a file:// reference I think.