Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora "builder" CD
by Neville Richter
Wade,
Everything with respect to the ADIOS project except for a few
documents has been copyrighted GNU General Public License.
The Makefile in /adk directory on the CD, allows you to create
the developement environment for ADIOS. You may want to add
some extra scripts to trim the number of languages down to 1
or 2 so that you can install more packages on a your
"rebuilder" CD. I use a Makefile to only support a few
langauges but this could be customised so that the user is
able to build a CD that only supports the languages that they
want. I suggest that this should really be part of the basic
Fedora Core install anyway as most people only know one or two
langauges at best.
I have only just downloaded Fedora Core 4, so work of ADIOS 5
is only just beginning. I am redesigning the image so that it
is less complicated. The linuxrc files in the initial ram
disk has grown into a monster, so a redesign has become
necessary. If you only want to use the unionfs solution then
the work should be straight forward, however I want to be able
to boot also without unionfs enabled so I am modifying the
filesystem via a Makefile and moving all read-write files into
the /var directory, which will be then copied to a RAM drive
and then mounted as /var. (Thus I have removed the need to
have a separate var.tgz file in the next version). I have
problems with the combination of unionfs, LIDS and UML so I do
need a non unionfs startup still to support virtual machines,
although I have started to lan with XEN. I am currently
thinking of not using LIDS, but using the selinux kernel and
supporting that on the boot CD as well.
I am also waiting on the 2.6.12 kernel to be released.
regards Neville
---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:58:29 +1000
>From: Wade Mealing <wmealing(a)redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora "builder" CD
>To: Fedora LiveCD list <fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com>
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is what I am going to do with the next version of
ADIOS live CD so
>> why not Fedora "builder" CD. I am including squashfs and
unionfs as
>> part of the kernel.
>>
>> So my suggestion is that standard Fedora kernel have these
modules or
>> similar, then it is easy to create a "builder" CD on the
fly, just
>> create a "root_fs" filesystem on a spare partition or
directly into a
>> 2GByte loopback filesystem. This root_fs filesystem is
then placed
>> within a squashfs filesystem. This only requires the
startup process
>> using say isolinux+busybox+vmlinuz+initrd.gz (or whatever)
to mount the
>> squashfs, create a ram drive for read-write, then mount the
loopback
>> using unionfs, a few extra "if" statements in rc.sysinit
(or rc.bootcd)
>> and then the live CD works.
>>
>
>Neville,
>
> Are the scripts used for ADIOS liveCD available under the
GPL to the
>public. I may have missed something, is there any chance I
get the
>source code ?
>
>Wade
>
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18 years, 6 months
Revival of this list: Fedora Live DVD?
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
So. Had a few discussions around this at the Red Hat Summit -- it became
a hot topic in the Fedora BOF there. What came out of it? Well...
...for one thing, it became clear that we need to kickstart this list. :)
For another thing, some folks asked: why not Live DVD?
For another thing, some folks asked: why not put the installer on it, so
that people can install the precise image they're playing with?
And lots of other questions. But for me, here's the takeaway:
There's lots of Live CDs. Too many to count. If we're not doing
something interesting, then we're nothing more than one more Live CD with
Fedora branding.
What about a Live DVD? With potential goals of:
1. Allowing users to choose to run the image that suits them;
2. Allowing users to install from DVD if they like;
3. Allowing us to put multiple arches on one DVD, if possible?
Looking at the download numbers from the torrent, we're seeing about 50/50
numbers for CD/DVD downloads.
So what about it? I know a bunch of you folks have Live CD code that
runs. Any of it convertible to Live DVD code?
--g
(p.s. Yes, we've announced the intention to announce the Fedora Foundation
at some point. I hope this means that we'll be able to turn this into an
officially sanctioned project at some point. But in the meantime, talking
works.)
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18 years, 6 months
Installation CD build scripts.
by Wade Mealing
I don't know who to talk to about this, I'll ask here,
Red Hat obviously builds their installation ISO files, including
applying the kernel and ISOLinux bootloader.
I know that the ia64, ppc/nSeries cd boot scripts must be somewhere
also. I'd like to integrate these into the anaconda scripts.
Where are these scripts ? Can I use them ?
Wade
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Red Hat Global Support Services
18 years, 6 months
Project Status?
by Tom Lisjac
The list has been very quiet for the last few weeks. What's the status
of the project? Is any development being done?
-Tom
18 years, 6 months
