2:13 a.m.
Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks,
when I last tried the
usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
Comments anyone?
2:23 a.m.
On 05/20/2009 12:43 PM, Williamson Grant wrote:
Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when
I last tried the
usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
Comments anyone?
Fedora 11 Live CD's will use Ext4 by default but retain a small /boot
partition formatted as Ext3. Since GRUB doesn't support LVM and Fedora
uses LVM by default, a separate /boot is needed anyway. You can create a
customized live cd with a different filesystem by using --fstype in
kickstart.
Rahul
2:41 a.m.
Rahul,
so the liveusb-creator will work with the ext4 created livecds?
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/20/2009 12:43 PM, Williamson Grant wrote:
> Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
>
> The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when
> I last tried the
> usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
>
> Comments anyone?
>
Fedora 11 Live CD's will use Ext4 by default but retain a small /boot
partition formatted as Ext3. Since GRUB doesn't support LVM and Fedora
uses LVM by default, a separate /boot is needed anyway. You can create a
customized live cd with a different filesystem by using --fstype in
kickstart.
Rahul
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10:16 a.m.
On Wednesday, May 20 2009, Rahul Sundaram said:
On 05/20/2009 12:43 PM, Williamson Grant wrote:
> Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
>
> The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when
> I last tried the
> usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
>
> Comments anyone?
Fedora 11 Live CD's will use Ext4 by default but retain a small /boot
partition formatted as Ext3. Since GRUB doesn't support LVM and Fedora
uses LVM by default, a separate /boot is needed anyway. You can create a
customized live cd with a different filesystem by using --fstype in
kickstart.
This isn't entirely accurate. The live images themselves are entirely
ext4. When you install them on a hard drive, we make an ext3 /boot and
do some shuffling in anaconda.
The ext4 live image is compressed inside of a squashfs which is then
placed on your USB stick which should be formatted either as vfat, ext2,
or ext3. I don't believe that extlinux (which we use for booting ext*
USB sticks with live images on them) supports ext4 yet
Jeremy
11:53 a.m.
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:13 +0200, Williamson Grant wrote:
Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks,
when I last tried the
usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
The Live Image itself is ext4. That is wrapped up in a squashfs file,
and then the file and some boot loader files are placed either on a CD
or on a USB device. The format of the USB device doesn't matter much,
vfat, ext[2,3], etc.. so long as the bootloader can boot it. It does
not have to match the filesystem that is in the squashfs image.
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12:03 p.m.
That clears that up, I create the usb img file from the iso using my
own scripts, guess that is where
I got confused.
On May 20, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:13 +0200, Williamson Grant wrote:
>
> Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
>
> The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks,
> when I last tried the
> usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
The Live Image itself is ext4. That is wrapped up in a squashfs file,
and then the file and some boot loader files are placed either on a CD
or on a USB device. The format of the USB device doesn't matter much,
vfat, ext[2,3], etc.. so long as the bootloader can boot it. It does
not have to match the filesystem that is in the squashfs image.
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