[Fedora-livecd-list] Development of biarch live CD script.

[Frederick Grose]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Jasper Hartline
<jasper.hartline at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Jasper Hartline <
> jasper.hartline at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Here is another one I've started work on:
> >> http://autopsy.liveprojects.info/scripts/mkbackup.py
> >>
> >> It's purpose is to create a LiveDVD out of the running system.
> >> This LiveDVD in conjunction with Anaconda's liveinst method of doing a
> >> direct copy
> >> of sr0 to sda or similar lays the basis for using this as a possible
> >> installable, backup solution.
> >> Also has LiveCD/DVD capability, which is ok.
>
> > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448030 , in particular,
> the
> > edit-livecd and edit-liveos attachments.  This posting has some more
> > background,
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/livecd/2010-August/006098.html .
> > It's good to see someone else working on this goal.
>
>
> Well. These are similar but not the same.
> mkbackup.py would create a LiveCD/LiveDVD out of a running system.
>

Yes, and as the running system may have been modified, it is much like an
intentional
customization (if the dump procedure does not exclude changes).

I don't know what edit-liveos does or edit-livecd but to my knowledge
> they are only for inserting packages into an already built LiveCD ISO.
>

edit-livecd is for inserting packages or files; edit-liveos is proposed as a
new version to accommodate customization and branding.

The mkbackup.py script does not do that, it simply would create a
> LiveCD/DVD out of the current installed system as a means for a Live
> bootable backup image, which with Anaconda, can be reinstalled to a
> machine in case of disk failure or other problems.


Not being familiar with dump, I found this thread interesting,
http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2005-April/013361.html .

        --Fred
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