Lars Bjørndal wrote: > Hello, list! > WHile trying to generate a livecd with the git version of revisor > from > thursday 17.th (or wed 16.th, not sure), I get an iso file of about > 3GB, although I expect it to be about 500MB. I'm not sure what debug > info you need to tell me why it is so large, so I just want to ask if > there is some known issues regarding theis problem. If not, I will > come back with more info, e.g. output from the building process etc. > This has been a known issue in certain cases where both the squashfs.img and the ext3.img end up on the ISO image. Please use the latest from GIT and tell us if it's solved now.

Lars Bjørndal wrote: > Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip(a)kanarip.com&gt; writes: > >> Lars Bjørndal wrote: >>> Hello, list! >>> WHile trying to generate a livecd with the git version of revisor >>> from >>> thursday 17.th (or wed 16.th, not sure), I get an iso file of about >>> 3GB, although I expect it to be about 500MB. I'm not sure what debug >>> info you need to tell me why it is so large, so I just want to ask if >>> there is some known issues regarding theis problem. If not, I will >>> come back with more info, e.g. output from the building process etc. >>> >> This has been a known issue in certain cases where both the >> squashfs.img and the ext3.img end up on the ISO image. Please use the >> latest from GIT and tell us if it's solved now. > Yes it is. However, I'm not able to boot the livecd: > Reading from bottom and upwards: > swithroot: mount failed: No such file or directory > Setuproot: error mounting /sys: no such file or directory > setuproot: mounting /proc no succh file or directory > setuproot: moving /dev failed no such file or directory > mount: missing mount point > mkrootdev: expected fs options > My guess is you're trying to create a Fedora 8 LiveCD?

I've seen this before, the init script in initrd0.img is missing some file labels and mount points. I've not been able to fix it in F8, but I do know it composes rawhide quite well. For composing Fedora 8 (or on Fedora 8) though, you might want to try the F-8 branch of Revisor, which will have less features (2.0.5) then the master or F-9 branch, or livecd-tools.

Lars Bjørndal wrote: > The command 'git branch' gives me only * master. So how do I grab the > F-8 branch of Revisor? > Go to the revisor source tree you have now, and go up one directory Type: git clone --reference <current-source> \ git://git.fedorahosted.org/revisor \ <new-folder> cd <new-folder> git checkout --track -b <new-branch> origin/<branch> Well, I'll give you an example: [user@machine ~]$ mkdir -p devel/revisor [user@machine ~]$ cd devel/revisor $ git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/revisor master # This will clone the master branch into sub-directory master $ git clone --reference master git://git.fedorahosted.org/revisor F-8 # This will create a F-8 sub-directory based on the master/ sub- # directory $ cd F-8 $ git checkout --track -b F-8 origin/F-8 # This will checkout branch F-8, and switch to that branch Hope this helps,