Booting from Flash?
by Darren Humphrey
I am having some success making a bootable livecd, but my ultimate goal is
to boot from a compact flash card.
I found an article from someone who did it with knoppix:
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8275095591.html
Any ideas on how to do the same with Fedora?
My grub/lilo skills are a bit weak...
Thanks,
Darren Humphrey
18 years
Error in last stage of running kadischi
by Rami Rosen
Hello,
I had installed kadishci accotding to the doc.
I am running kadishci like thus:
kadischi http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/4/i386/os//work/livecd/fedora-
live.iso
And I am getting the following error (it seems to me at the last stage of
its work):
........
........
running post installation scripts
/usr/local/share/kadischi/post_install_scripts/01umountproc.sh
/usr/local/share/kadischi/post_install_scripts/02install.sh
/usr/local/share/kadischi/post_install_scripts/03fstab.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/share/kadischi/post_install_scripts/03fstab.py", line 12,
in ?
if (line[0] != '#') and (line != '\n') and (line.find('swap') == -1) and (
line.rsplit() [1] != '/'):
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'rsplit'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/share/kadischi/kadischi.py", line 248, in ?
run ("%s %s" % (script, sysdir), builddir)
File "/usr/local/share/kadischi/lib/functions.py", line 112, in run
flc_log ('\n *** Fatal error: %s returned non zero (%s) exit code. Aborting
execution.\n' % (command.rsplit() [0], rc))
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'rsplit'
........
........
Any idea why ?
Regards,
Rami
18 years, 1 month
Argh! Disappearing devices
by Darren Humphrey
I've been pretty successful with the live CD part so far but I am
struggling with make a compact flash card bootable.
My biggest problem right now is some sort of process in Fedora Core 4 is
managing whether or not /dev/hdd1 and /dev/hdd2 exist. I have an IDE/CF
adapter card installed and I have partitioned the CF card into two
partitions with Linux file systems. However whenever I try to make an ext
file system on the CF card, I get errors about the devices not existing.
I am not really familiar with udev and hal....is there a way to configure
the system to NOT try to automatically create/delete /dev entries for /dev/hdd?
Thanks,
Darren Humphrey
18 years, 2 months
Start in graphical mode and getting updates
by Mark Komarinski
I'm building a live CD for teaching a class in Linux on the Desktop.
So far, I have Kadischi building something just larger than a CD size (I
think needing both KDE and GNOME is doing this), but am running into two
problems.
First, the DVD's I'm building start off in runlevel 3. How can I get it
to skip firstboot and have it go right into runlevel 5?
Also, I'm building the DVD by fetching RPMs from a mirror, but they're
not getting the updates, only the original install packages. How can I
tell Kadischi I want to get updates as well? Would I need to build my
own repository?
-Mark
--
Mark Komarinski mark_komarinski(a)hms.harvard.edu
Sr. Research Systems Architect http://ritg.med.harvard.edu
Research IT Group
Harvard Medical School
18 years, 2 months
Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Booting from Flash?
by Neville Richter
Darren,
An alternative, the ADIOS boot CD has the ability to boot from
USB devices. To make this work the ADIOS kernel includes USB
modules within the initial ram drive. The commands to make
the USB device bootable are in the linuxrc script, also
located in the initial ram drive.
regards Neville
---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:24:50 -0400
>From: Darren Humphrey <dhumphre(a)simulation.com>
>Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Booting from Flash?
>To: fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com
>
>I am having some success making a bootable livecd, but my
ultimate goal is
>to boot from a compact flash card.
>
>I found an article from someone who did it with knoppix:
>
>http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8275095591.html
>
>Any ideas on how to do the same with Fedora?
>
>My grub/lilo skills are a bit weak...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Darren Humphrey
>
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>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
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18 years, 2 months
Live-CD and shutting down
by Mark Ryden
Hello,
I tried today preparing a LiveCD using kadischi and it works great !
you've done a wonderful job !
I am quite a newbie to liveCD ; I have a question (which is not specific to
your LIveCD project) and I hope you can give me some advice:
When I want to turn off (not reboot but power down) the computer
(which was started from your LiveCD),
I run "shutdown -h now".
I cannot eject the CD before because it is mounted (there is no
response to pressing the eject button ).
When I press the eject button during shutdown process it still does
not respond.
Is there a way to cause it to ejecct during suthdown (or must I start
the computer
again)?
Regards,
Mark
18 years, 2 months
/opt and the live-cd : problem: cannot see files
by Ian Brown
Hello,
I had added to some files under /opt
I want to see these files after booting the live-cd and I can't.
Here are the details:
I did it by using the live-cd script. (I just paused the
kadischi script (kadischi.py) before it statrs compression,by adding
a command to
reading some input from the console,and added to the
"system" folder some files under opt , and than let
the script finish it job.
Now, the "fedora-live.iso" which was created DOES contains
the files under /opt. If I mount it , on the hard disk,using:
mount -o loop tmpFolder fedora-live.iso
Than I can see the all the files under /opt.
However, when I burn this fedora-live.iso with cdrecord,
and boot with it, I don't see anything under /opt.
Is there a way to overcome it ?
Any idea ?
Should putting theses files under another folder work?
Kind Regards,
Ian
18 years, 2 months
python bactrace and failure.
by Skunk Worx
Hello,
I followed the instructions on the wiki but get this as anaconda
finished up:
* Writing autokickstart file
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/build/573771-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py",
line 1137, in handleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
File
"/usr/src/build/573771-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py",
line 244, in renderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "/usr/src/build/573771-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py",
line 873, in nextClicked
self.dispatch.gotoNext()
File
"/usr/src/build/573771-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line
174, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File
"/usr/src/build/573771-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line
242, in moveStep
rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
File
"/usr/src/build/573771-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line
84, in writeKSConfiguration
id.writeKS(fn)
File
"/usr/src/build/573771-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/instdata.py", line
161, in writeKS
(srv, dir) = string.split(nfsinfo, ':')
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
Also the wiki doc has a patching section that references
/usr/share/kadischi/patches/
In my case they are below /usr/local.
This is a fully yum-updated FC4 machine.
Thanks for any help,
FF
18 years, 2 months
Stage FS before compression?
by Greg Simon
I need to build a live CD based on FC3 for a client, and I need to
install non-rpm'ed applications on the system before "freezing it."
Does this mean I need to write up an rpm spec to do it? --or can I
chroot to the tmp image and install the apps there?
Thanks,
Greg
18 years, 2 months
kadisschi problem
by sailaja
Dear Mr.Darko,
I am using the latest version of kadischi to
create the live-cd for fedora core3.
In the process,we have gone through the documentation available and
resolved the following
issues:
1.First of all, the anaconda installer was getting some problem, and now
its working well.
2.Coming to the post installation scripts, the file 01umountproc.sh was
not running. It was telling that the proc in the tmp path is not mounted.
So, we have moved that file to another location so that kadischi will
ignore it and it did so and next file 02install.sh was taken to run
properly.
3. Next, we were stuck at 03fstab.sh where we gave comments to the
following lines in that file and it went to run other installation
scripts well.
fstab = open (normalize_path ([sysdir,'/etc/fstab']) , 'r')
for line in fstab:
if (line[0] != '#') and (line != '\n') and (line.find('swap') ==
-1) and (line.rsplit() [1] != '/'):
list.append (line)
fstab.close()
Is there any problem if we comment these lines?
4. Now, it came to making of the initrd image where we are stuck now,
and unable to resolve the problem.
The error is as follows:
making initrd image
/tmp/fc3/livecd-build_no24/system/lib/modules/None is not a directory.
Is there any necessity to fill any feilds in the file livecd-mkinitrd.sh
and other files too.
Why is this happening?
It would be helpful if you mail me back.
Looking forward
Thanks and Regards,
Sailaja
18 years, 2 months
