7:16 a.m.
I've used Dirk Westfal's article which describes how to create a
Fedora 4 livecd, to create my own customized livecd. It worked fine up
to FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5. While trying to boot a FC6
livecd with the latest 2.6.19 kernel, it didn't boot.
Do anyone knows if the RPMs that are used in this article are updated,
and may be downloaded from anywhere?
Unfortunately the livecd-creator seems not to be able to do what I
want, or is it?
Lars
8:44 a.m.
On 1/30/07, Lars Bjørndal <lars.bjorndal(a)broadpark.no> wrote:
I've used Dirk Westfal's article which describes how to
create a
Fedora 4 livecd, to create my own customized livecd. It worked fine up
to FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5. While trying to boot a FC6
livecd with the latest 2.6.19 kernel, it didn't boot.
Do anyone knows if the RPMs that are used in this article are updated,
and may be downloaded from anywhere?
url of Dirk Westfal's article ?
Unfortunately the livecd-creator seems not to be able to do what I
want, or is it?
David's tool works well here with FC6.
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11:33 a.m.
Vnpenguin <vnpenguin(a)vnoss.org> writes:
On 1/30/07, Lars Bjørndal <lars.bjorndal(a)broadpark.no> wrote:
> I've used Dirk Westfal's article which describes how to create a
> Fedora 4 livecd, to create my own customized livecd. It worked fine up
> to FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5. While trying to boot a FC6
> livecd with the latest 2.6.19 kernel, it didn't boot.
>
> Do anyone knows if the RPMs that are used in this article are updated,
> and may be downloaded from anywhere?
url of Dirk Westfal's article ?
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Creating_a_Fedora_Core_4_LiveCD
> Unfortunately the livecd-creator seems not to be able to do what
I
> want, or is it?
>
David's tool works well here with FC6.
Yes, but is it possible to use this tool to create a livecd as a clone
of a harddisk installation of fc6? How can I do so, if it's possible?
Thanks
Lars
1:57 p.m.
--- Lars Bjørndal <lars.bjorndal(a)broadpark.no> wrote:
Vnpenguin <vnpenguin(a)vnoss.org> writes:
> On 1/30/07, Lars Bjørndal <lars.bjorndal(a)broadpark.no> wrote:
>> I've used Dirk Westfal's article which describes how to create a
>> Fedora 4 livecd, to create my own customized livecd. It worked
fine up
>> to FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5. While trying to boot a FC6
>> livecd with the latest 2.6.19 kernel, it didn't boot.
>>
>> Do anyone knows if the RPMs that are used in this article are
updated,
>> and may be downloaded from anywhere?
>
> url of Dirk Westfal's article ?
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Creating_a_Fedora_Core_4_LiveCD
>> Unfortunately the livecd-creator seems not to be able to do what I
>> want, or is it?
>>
>
> David's tool works well here with FC6.
Yes, but is it possible to use this tool to create a livecd as a
clone
of a harddisk installation of fc6? How can I do so, if it's possible?
From a user perspective, this is not possible yet. But if you know
your way around bash/python/fedora it shouldn't be too tricky to use
the relevent parts of pilgrim to do what you want to do. Mainly,
pilgrim implements its own installer with yum and chroot. Then after
creating a system image, it postprocesses it into a livecd, mainly via
packaging the system as an ext3 filesystem image (in a sparse file),
that then becomes the sole part of a squashfs filesystem image, which
then becomes the primary part of the final iso image.
To do what you are saying requires splitting pilgrim into a frontend
installer, and a backend livecd generator. I.e. you are only
interested in using the backend with a copy of some existing image. Of
course there are probably several other details, which if you know your
way around a fedora system, shouldn't be too terribly hard to figure
out.
Not trivial, but very doable. Of course, from my own perspective, I
would just spend the time making a suitable pilgrim config file, rather
than cloning an existing system. For storage space and reproducibility
and maintenance, thats a big win IMO.
-dmc/jdog
Thanks
Lars
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1:16 p.m.
Jane Dogalt <jdogalt(a)yahoo.com> writes:
--- Lars Bjørndal <lars.bjorndal(a)broadpark.no> wrote:
> Vnpenguin <vnpenguin(a)vnoss.org> writes:
>
> > On 1/30/07, Lars Bjørndal <lars.bjorndal(a)broadpark.no> wrote:
> >> I've used Dirk Westfal's article which describes how to create a
> >> Fedora 4 livecd, to create my own customized livecd. It worked
> fine up
> >> to FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5. While trying to boot a FC6
> >> livecd with the latest 2.6.19 kernel, it didn't boot.
> >>
> >> Do anyone knows if the RPMs that are used in this article are
> updated,
> >> and may be downloaded from anywhere?
> >
> > url of Dirk Westfal's article ?
>
>
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Creating_a_Fedora_Core_4_LiveCD
But I've tried to use the HOWTO and RPMs to create fedora based livecd
(console mode only). I've installed FC6, and I try to make the
Livecds. With kernel 2.6.17-12187_FC5, all works fine, also on a FC6
install. However, with the latest 2.6.19 fc6 kernel, I get the
following error messages when booting from this kernel?
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block0
RAMDISK: Loading 8000KiB (1 disk) into ramdisk... done.
EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device
grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744071562067968 for
device ram0
isofs_foll_super: bread failed, dev=ram0, iso_blknum=17,
block=-2147483648
No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext2 iso9660
Kernel panic - not syncing
Do you have any ideas what I have to change to get this kernel
booting? I suppose the important message is: EXT2-fs: blocksize too
small for device, but I don't understand why the 2.6.17 boots and
2.6.19 doesn't.
Lars
3:04 p.m.
Jane Dogalt <jdogalt(a)yahoo.com> writes:
[...]
Not trivial, but very doable. Of course, from my own perspective, I
would just spend the time making a suitable pilgrim config file, rather
than cloning an existing system. For storage space and reproducibility
and maintenance, thats a big win IMO.
Yes, of course, but I have a system with a lot of packages that I only
use in some situation, and just this system is handy also on CD, when
I'm traveling for instance.
Lars
11:53 a.m.
--- Lars Bjørndal <lars.bjorndal(a)broadpark.no> wrote:
Jane Dogalt <jdogalt(a)yahoo.com> writes:
[...]
> Not trivial, but very doable. Of course, from my own perspective,
I
> would just spend the time making a suitable pilgrim config file,
rather
> than cloning an existing system. For storage space and
reproducibility
> and maintenance, thats a big win IMO.
Yes, of course, but I have a system with a lot of packages that I
only
use in some situation, and just this system is handy also on CD, when
I'm traveling for instance.
I was just pointing out that for instance, if you invest the time in
creating the livecd-creator spin configuration, then, for example when
f7 and f8 come out, it should be much easier to just rerun a command to
spit out a new iso, rather than deal with trying to upgrade the cloned
system.
-dmc/jdog
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