livecd November 2008

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F7 general question about livecd-creator and timezones
by Skunk Worx 01 May '09

01 May '09

My ks scripts have the timezone set to PDT (America/Los_Angeles). Installation to a hard drive works as expected. PDT in startup and in shells, etc. Creating a livecd-creator iso with the same tz setting, then booting, shows A/L_A in the /etc/sysconfig/clock file, as expected. However the date is always EDT in the boot messages, shells, etc. During startup I see : (lvm) Press I to enter interactive startup Setting clock (utc) Mon Jun 4 00:12:59 EDT 2007 (udev) I'm not clear on what is happening between lvm and udev in the Linux startup sequence. If someone could give me a hint about what to look for and where to look for it I would appreciate the help. --- John

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Using both EFI and MBR at once on Live USB images
by Stewart Adam 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hi, I've been trying to get the Fedora 10 Snapshot ISO to work boot via a USB key on my MacBook Pro using the --mactel option, and while I think GRUB's EFI image has a bug in it since no kernels boot [1], it gave me another idea. I thought it would be pretty cool if we could synchronize the GPT and MSDOS partition tables (complete with MBR), similar to how it's used in BootCamp/rEFIt so that any given live media could be used with EFI or with BIOS. I've packaged rEFIt [2] (which includes gptsync) but since there's only one partition on the Live USB media, gptsync immediately says "nothing to do" and exits. One way around this would be to use two-partitions on the live media, but that would troublesome since Windows will only recognize the first readable partition. The other way would be to patch gptsync and have it translate the EFI partition to "FAT32" for the MSDOS partition table. I'd like to hear your comments/feedback on this - Do you think it's a feature worth spending time on? Any other ideas for workarounds? Stewart [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466954 [2] http://downloads.diffingo.com/refit-0.11-1.fc9.src.rpm

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RFE: allow multi live medium
by Till Maas 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hiyas, I would like to create a usb device that contains several live mediums. Afaics, this is currently not possible, unless I use a separate partition for each live medium, because they all expect LiveOS to be the directory containing some images. Attached is a patch agains mkliveinitrd from the current rawhide cvs repository that makes it possible to pass a "live_dir" kernel parameter, that is then used instead of LiveOS. How do you like this patch and do I have to submit it via bugzilla to the mkinitrd component to get it included? Do you know other places on the live medium that use a hardcoded LiveOS directory? Regards, Till

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Persistence issues in F9, fixed in F10?
by Todd N 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hello, There are some issues in Fedora 9 when using a bootable USB stick with a persistent overlay (created using livecd-iso-to-disk). Filling up the overlay renders the USB stick non-bootable. Whatever the reason for this, has the issue been resolved in Fedora 10? Also, once desired changes have been made to files on the USB, using the persistent overlay, is there a way (in Fedora 9 or 10) to disable further writes to the overlay, basically "freezing" it so that no further permanent changes can be made? Thanks in advance for any input. Todd

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imgcreate/kickstart.py livecd-tools.spec tools/livecd-creator
by Jeremy Katz 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

imgcreate/kickstart.py | 4 +++- livecd-tools.spec | 1 + tools/livecd-creator | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) New commits: commit 26e3c100f567e0132847e0ef0ac6b42b8d35f727 Author: Bryan Kearney <bkearney(a)redhat.com> Date: Tue Nov 25 10:55:25 2008 -0500 Allow URLs for kickstart config Allow for http://, ftp://, or file:// urls to be passed in to the image creators using urlgrabber. This verison delagets all work to urlgrabber and all error checking to the kickstart parser diff --git a/imgcreate/kickstart.py b/imgcreate/kickstart.py index c97eb08..58171c4 100644 --- a/imgcreate/kickstart.py +++ b/imgcreate/kickstart.py @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import shutil import subprocess import time import logging +import urlgrabber import rhpl.keyboard @@ -47,7 +48,8 @@ def read_kickstart(path): version = ksversion.makeVersion() ks = ksparser.KickstartParser(version) try: - ks.readKickstart(path) + ksfile = urlgrabber.urlgrab(path) + ks.readKickstart(ksfile) except IOError, (err, msg): raise errors.KickstartError("Failed to read kickstart file " "'%s' : %s" % (path, msg)) diff --git a/livecd-tools.spec b/livecd-tools.spec index 7ab1468..215b576 100644 --- a/livecd-tools.spec +++ b/livecd-tools.spec @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Requires: pykickstart >= 0.96 Requires: dosfstools >= 2.11-8 Requires: isomd5sum Requires: rhpl +Requires: python-urlgrabber %ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 Requires: syslinux %endif diff --git a/tools/livecd-creator b/tools/livecd-creator index b401190..6d84e4c 100755 --- a/tools/livecd-creator +++ b/tools/livecd-creator @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def parse_options(args): imgopt = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, "Image options", "These options define the created image.") imgopt.add_option("-c", "--config", type="string", dest="kscfg", - help="Path to kickstart config file") + help="Path or url to kickstart config file") imgopt.add_option("-b", "--base-on", type="string", dest="base_on", help="Add packages to an existing live CD iso9660 image.") imgopt.add_option("-f", "--fslabel", type="string", dest="fs_label", @@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ def parse_options(args): help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP) (options, args) = parser.parse_args() - if not options.kscfg or not os.path.isfile(options.kscfg): - raise Usage("Kickstart config '%s' does not exist" %(options.kscfg,)) + if not options.kscfg: + raise Usage("Kickstart file must be provided") if options.base_on and not os.path.isfile(options.base_on): raise Usage("Live CD ISO '%s' does not exist" %(options.base_on,)) if options.fs_label and len(options.fs_label) > imgcreate.FSLABEL_MAXLEN:

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Resending the Patch
by Bryan Kearney 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

This is a resend with all file loading being delegated ot urlgrabber, and all error checking delegated to hte kickstart parser.

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tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
by Jeremy Katz 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) New commits: commit 4adb05da112f9040e5923bd569b2b40bd6ed1ffa Author: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> Date: Mon Nov 24 09:50:58 2008 -0500 Shell escaping diff --git a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh index b11c0aa..4414c4e 100755 --- a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh +++ b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ if [ -n "$xo" ]; then if [ ! -d $USBMNT/boot ]; then mkdir -p $USBMNT/boot ; fi cat > $USBMNT/boot/olpc.fth <<EOF \ Boot script for USB boot -hex rom-pa fffc7 + 4 $number drop h# 2e19 < [if] +hex rom-pa fffc7 + 4 \$number drop h# 2e19 < [if] patch 2drop erase claim-params : high-ramdisk ( -- ) cv-load-ramdisk

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Error module loop not found
by Junior Tomazelli 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

I tried reinstall livecd-tools, download again the cache necessary and generate using olds kickstarts. But I have this error always, someone can help me? -- Wolnei Cândido Tomazelli Junior (Charged) Brazil Fedora Ambassador Designer and TI E-mail : linux.charged(a)gmail.com Linux User #477062

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Persistent usb device rules
by Orion Poplawski 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

After booting my F10 usb stick with persistent storage I accumulate a bunch of persistent-net usb rules and have network device names like "eth0_rename". Any way to avoid. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com

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Resending remote url patch
by Bryan Kearney 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Resending this patch which has been rebased and white space issues removed.

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