livecd March 2008

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F8 Live CD respin without first boot wizard?!?
by Valent Turkovic 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hi, our local LUG organized Fedora/Ubuntu install fest and I created for that occasion respin of Fedora 8 Live CD with updated packages because I didn't want to have 10 people go and try to get 200MB (or is it even more) of updates all at once. I found out one bug that livecd.creator has or kickstart file, or something else, so please help me because I don't know where to file this bug. I recreated the Fedora 8 Live CD with this command: livecd-creator -c livecd-fedora-8-desktop.ks -f F8Desktop -t /virtual/tmp It boots and it installs to hard disk without problems, but after first boot there is no "first boot wizard" that creates user so all users get is an empty gdm screen to which then can it they know enter root as a user. Has anybody tried making respins for F8 Live CD? Do your lice CDs work as original F8 so that you get first time boot wizard that asks for user name and password so you create user that will log on later? Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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Boot options for liveins and textinst?
by Sebastian Vahl 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Hi. The boot options "liveinst" and "textinst" are existing quite some time in the livecd-creator source. Are there plans to put them into the isolinux menu for easier access at boot time? Or are they not ready yet? Sebastian

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2 commits - imgcreate/live.py tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
by Jeremy Katz 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

imgcreate/live.py | 6 ++++-- tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) New commits: commit e128200e1b6b9f2d71681dcd74e8906f8c775c1f Author: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri Mar 14 18:06:30 2008 -0400 Add pcmcia modules (#435903) diff --git a/imgcreate/live.py b/imgcreate/live.py index 0474d59..c6267f7 100644 --- a/imgcreate/live.py +++ b/imgcreate/live.py @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class LiveImageCreatorBase(LoopImageCreator): self.__isodir = None - self.__modules = ["=ata", "sym53c8xx", "aic7xxx", "=usb", "=firewire", "=mmc"] + self.__modules = ["=ata", "sym53c8xx", "aic7xxx", "=usb", "=firewire", "=mmc", "=pcmcia"] self.__modules.extend(kickstart.get_modules(self.ks)) # @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ class LiveImageCreatorBase(LoopImageCreator): f.write('LIVEOS="yes"\n') f.write('PROBE="no"\n') f.write('MODULES+="squashfs ext3 ext2 vfat msdos "\n') - f.write('MODULES+="sr_mod sd_mod ide-cd "\n') + f.write('MODULES+="sr_mod sd_mod ide-cd cdrom "\n') for module in self.__modules: if module == "=usb": @@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ class LiveImageCreatorBase(LoopImageCreator): f.write('MODULES+="sbp2 ohci1394 ieee1394 "\n') elif module == "=mmc": f.write('MODULES+="mmc_block sdhci "\n') + elif module == "=pcmcia": + f.write('MODULES+="pata_pcmcia "\n') else: f.write('MODULES+="' + module + ' "\n') commit eb2c5c3c5e8a3e78a19d1cc2ac06813ee5a05442 Author: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> Date: Mon Mar 10 11:34:40 2008 -0400 Deal with sillies of bash so that we don't check overlaysizemb unless it exists diff --git a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh index 5aeeca7..0302bcf 100644 --- a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh +++ b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh @@ -197,9 +197,11 @@ checkPartActive $USBDEV checkMBR $USBDEV [ -n $resetmbr ] && resetMBR $USBDEV -if [ -n "$overlaysizemb" -a "$USBFS" = "vfat" -a "$overlaysizemb" -gt 2047 ]; then +if [ -n "$overlaysizemb" -a "$USBFS" = "vfat" ]; then + if [ "$overlaysizemb" -gt 2047 ]; then echo "Can't have an overlay greater than 2048MB on VFAT" exitclean + fi fi # FIXME: would be better if we had better mountpoints

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config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks
by Sebastian Vahl 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) New commits: commit bf79596294543cced59a43570c031177fd5b7499 Author: Sebastian Vahl <fedora(a)deadbabylon.de> Date: Tue Mar 11 21:24:19 2008 +0100 directly depend on nm-applet and remove the dummy package knetworkmanager diff --git a/config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks b/config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks index 13ea212..4916336 100644 --- a/config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks +++ b/config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ %packages @kde-desktop +# include nm-applet directly +-knetworkmanager +NetworkManager-gnome + # unwanted packages from @kde-desktop # don't include these for now to fit on a cd # digikam (~11 megs), ktorrent (~3 megs), amarok (~14 megs),

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config/livecd-fedora-desktop.ks
by Jeremy Katz 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

config/livecd-fedora-desktop.ks | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) New commits: commit 0ea6f75f70999f6ee06c37266cde8c5f2d953813 Author: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> Date: Tue Mar 11 12:45:39 2008 -0400 Some space-saving diff --git a/config/livecd-fedora-desktop.ks b/config/livecd-fedora-desktop.ks index a0d24bc..106bf52 100644 --- a/config/livecd-fedora-desktop.ks +++ b/config/livecd-fedora-desktop.ks @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ gnumeric # more fun with space saving -scim-lang-chinese +-scim-python-chinese scim-chewing scim-pinyin @@ -139,6 +140,8 @@ scim-pinyin -evince-djvu # temporary - drags in many deps -ekiga +-tomboy +-f-spot %end %post

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F9 Live USB stick problem
by ergodic 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

---An attempt to test F-9 Live from USB Stick failed with the following results: # livecd-iso-to-disk /home/ml/Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-x86_64/Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-x86_64.iso /dev/sdd1 Verifying image... /home/ml/Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-x86_64/Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-x86_64.iso: 1149f84da5e45a818af342498581e0c6 Fragment sums: 9fcbb8dced6ec5174f3b85ac6e85c2f13496d8115cbbb02b6ff1783e9584 Fragment count: 20 Percent complete: 100.0% Fragment[20/20] -> OK 100.0 The media check is complete, the result is: PASS. It is OK to use this media. Copying live image to USB stick Updating boot config file Installing boot loader USB stick set up as live image! ---Then tested with qemu: # qemu -hda /dev/sdd1 -m 256 -std-vga No protocol specified No protocol specified Could not initialize SDL - exiting --- Box is Asus P5K Mobo with Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHZ, 2GB Mem. Running F-8. Your help will be appreciated. Thanks, M. A. MacLain

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F9 Live USB stick problem
by ergodic 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

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config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks
by Sebastian Vahl 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) New commits: commit 6e7dc10398725de73a61a2fe113546c7b503e27c Author: Sebastian Vahl <fedora(a)deadbabylon.de> Date: Mon Mar 10 21:17:59 2008 +0100 respect new samba package split and remove amarok again to fit a cd diff --git a/config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks b/config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks index 2105b1f..13ea212 100644 --- a/config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks +++ b/config/livecd-fedora-kde.ks @@ -5,13 +5,14 @@ # unwanted packages from @kde-desktop # don't include these for now to fit on a cd -# digikam (~11 megs), ktorrent (~3 megs), twinkle (~10 megs) -#-amarok +# digikam (~11 megs), ktorrent (~3 megs), amarok (~14 megs), +# kdegames (~23 megs) +-amarok -digikam -kdeedu -scribus #-ktorrent -#-twinkle +#-kdegames # KDE 3 koffice-kword @@ -20,7 +21,8 @@ koffice-kpresenter koffice-filters k3b filelight -#twinkle +# twinkle (~10 megs) +twinkle # some extras fuse

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livecd-tools-015 released
by Jeremy Katz 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

I've just pushed livecd-tools-015 to the repository and am building the package for tomorrow's rawhide. You can also grab the tarball from http://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/livecd At this point, the feature flow for Fedora 9 should be pretty much finished. There's still some things to help improve the user experience around the persistence support, but it seems to be working nicely. git shortlog for the release follows Jeremy Katz (11): Fix typo noticed by dexter <dex DOT mbox AT googlemail DOT com> Temporarily use 128 byte inodes to avoid hitting #434893 Stop using mayflower for building the live initrd Fix up Fedora 8 configs to still be able to boot Remove mayflower Remove our /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd Fix up for changes in the gdm config file so that we get autologin again Revert "Temporarily use 128 byte inodes to avoid hitting #434893" Add support to set up persistent overlay (based on changes by Douglas McClendon) Fixes to avoid problems on VFAT usb sticks Bump version Luke Macken (1): Drop gnome-blog from our livecd-fedora-desktop.ks, as it is now orphaned. Richard W.M. Jones (1): Add support for pxeboot Sebastian Vahl (1): re-add twinkle and amarok to package list Warren Togami (4): LiveCD Patch: Typo in _do_bindmounts() comment selinux --disabled fixes Create a minimal /dev instead of bind mounting the host's /dev remove mayflower from Makefile install Jeremy

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The long-awaited landing of persistence
by Jeremy Katz 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

After long periods of waiting and hoping, etc I'm just about to do a push of some changes that at least give us a good base to build on for persistent live images. They're very very very heavily based off of Douglas McClendon's patches that he posted here a month or two, but I've done basically two things with them: 1) Integrated the findoverlay bits into mkliveinitrd directly and was able to do a little bit of cleanup accordingly 2) Not put in the bits right now to do the snapshot teardown on shutdown The former is pretty non-controversial. The latter, well, we're going to need some testing to know how feasible this really is. I spent quite a while this afternoon trying to cause any form of corruption without the initscripts changes and never succeeded[1]. And realistically, if it's going to cause corruption if we don't shutdown cleanly, then we have problems if someone loses power or removes their USB key or any of a whole bunch of other things occur. I _did_ have the journal get recovered and as long as things were able to get to the journal, it was good to go. But more testing is going to be needed. So if anyone here wants to try building some images and putting them on USB drives and testing them out, that'd be greatly appreciated. And then I'm going to issue a larger call for testers with the Fedora 9 beta. If we find that we need to integrate some of the shutdown bits, we'll make it happen. But right now, I'm feeling pretty confident that we won't The quick steps of how to take advantage of the functionality: 1) Build a live image using the newer mkinitrd (6.0.32) in your repos 2) Use the updated livecd-iso-to-disk.sh with an --overlay-size-mb=512 (or 1024 or whatever based on the capacity of your USB stick minus the size of the ISO) 3) Boot the USB drive You can also (although it's more complicated) use a USB stick with a CD 1) Build live image as in 1) above 2) Create /LiveOS/overlay-$v- on your USB stick with size how ever big you want (can be a sparse file). $v is the label of the _iso_ (not of the USB stick) 3) Find the label or UUID of the partition on the USB stick you're using. Write it down. 4) When you boot the CD, have the USB stick plugged in and add to the kernel command line overlay=$dev where $dev is what you found in step 3. If it's a label, do LABEL=foo; similarly uuid ==> UUID=foo. Big big big thanks and kudos to dmc for doing all of the legwork here and letting me off the hook for so long on actually getting it integrated. But once I finally got around to having a full afternoon to spend on it, it was in great shape. Jeremy

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