livecd September 2008

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Fedora 7 Live CD: Permission Denied Error during bootup
by Sakthi_ciet 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Hi, I have a Fedora 7 live i386 CD. i want to create my own distribution, based on fedora 7 live CD. i dont know anything about modifying fedora live cd. ofcourse i dont want to use any built in tools to modify the fedora live cd. I booted the system with FC7 live CD, with option run from RAM. 1. logged in as root 2. mounted the FC7 live CD to /mnt 3. again mounted the /mnt/squashfs.img to /mnt-squash 4. again loop mounted the /mnt-squash/os.img to /mnt-os Now in my laptop (80GB Harddisk, 1GB RAM, intel centrino processor, Windows XP Prof), i have 80 GB NTFS partition C:/ So i dont have any option to create a ext3 partition. i just used the windows NTFS partition as temporary build space for my new distro. 5. mount /dev/sda1 to /win (This is the C:\ drive of my laptop) 6. create a dir /win/build 7. create a 4GB file using dd as follows dd if=/dev/zero of=/win/build/os.img bs=512 count=8388608 8. the above command created a raw 4GB file, i used mkfs.ext3 to create a ext3 partition on this 4GB file. 9. mkfs.ext3 -L / /win/build/os.img 10. loop mounted (RW mode) /win/build/os.img to /new-os/ 11. now i copied the contents of original fedora live CD os.img (/mnt-os/* to /new-os/*) Note: I used --preserve=context option to preserve the SELinux Context. (cp --preserve=context -rf . /new-os/) 12. changed /new-os/etc/issue file. 13. unmounted /new-os 14. then created a squasfs.img using the new os.img image and sysroot folder as follows, cd /win/build/ cp -rf /mnt-squash/sysroot . mksquashfs os.img sysroot/ squashfs.img 15. now i got the squashfs.img successfully, (but firsttime i got the compressed size of squshfs.img as 653MB, later, 4th 5th time the size grown to 1.1GB, 1.2GB - but this is not the subject of interest!) 16. created a dir /win/my_new_distro 17. copied newly created squashfs.img to /win/my_new_distro 18. copied /mnt/sysroot to /win/my_new_distro/ 19. copied /mnt/isolinux to /win/my_new_distro/ modified the boot loaders ditro display name, splash images in isolinux/ 20. created the bootable isoimage using mkisofs cd /win/my_new_distro/ mkisofs -o ../sakthi.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -V sakthilnx . 21. successfully got the ISO image of my new distro, i just burned it to my CD using cdrecord cdrecord -v -dao -dev=1,0,0 sakthi.iso 22. Booted my new distro CD, it booted successfully, reflecting all changes in boot loader screen. 23. Selected the 1st option Run Live Image 24. It uncompressed, control moved to rc.sysinit, and complained not able to execute hwclock, permission denied. from here all the system service failed saying permission denied error. All that i guess is SELinux context issue, but when i checked the medium --> squashfs.img -->os.img -->(mounted) (my new distro, by mounting in another linux machine) i found that the SElinux context is preserved it has context smilar to FC7 Live CD. i dont understand where i did the mistake. i haven't referred to any documentation / wesite, on how to build custom distro, all i did is my own guessing. FYI: previously one of my try is successful, there i copied os.img contents to the NTFS partition (/win/os-cnt/) then i did the changes, and again copied all the contents to my local os.img file (ext3 partition) i did not preserved anything while copying, except i changed the tmp/ dir with chmod 777 tmp/, chmod t tmp/. this worked well, booted, all services started successfully, x server started. but when i try to login from X window or Command Line (Ctrl+Alt+F1) i am been logged out automatically in less than a second. loggin in from Command Line, it says (no shell to login, permission denied). from GUI, a window appear and says your session lasted lessthan 10 secs, please see the log files for details. I dont understand neither error messages. Please forgive me for my bad english, and let me know if some thing is not clear or want more details. Is there any one who can help this poor boy? -- Thanks in Advance, Sakthivel Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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Re : [Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator unable to install packages
by El Kindi REZIG 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Thanks a million man! It did the trick... ----- Message d'origine ---- De : Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip(a)kanarip.com> À : fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com Envoyé le : Dimanche, 21 Septembre 2008, 9h46mn 06s Objet : Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator unable to install packages El Kindi REZIG wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been really confused these days by an error message after I run > livecd-creator, it says that it is unable to install some of my packages > (almost all), here is the message: > > Error creating Live CD : Unable to install: [('installing package > xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-47.fc8.i386 needs 5MB on the > /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, snip > As you can see it seems it's a disk space problem, but I have 28 GO > free, also I noticed that the size of the packaged reported in the error > don't make any sense. I also noticed that when I try to build > livecd-fedora-desktop-base, it works fine, strange... Any hints would be > appreciated. > Increase the size of "part / --size=" in the kickstart you are using. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list

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livecd-creator unable to install packages
by El Kindi REZIG 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Hello everybody, I've been really confused these days by an error message after I run livecd-creator, it says that it is unable to install some of my packages (almost all), here is the message: Error creating Live CD : Unable to install: [('installing package xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-47.fc8.i386 needs 5MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 4579328L)), ('installing package rhpxl-0.49-2.fc8.i386 needs 5MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5181440L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.2.3-1.fc8.i386 needs 5MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5238784L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-calcomp-1.1.0-4.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5259264L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-citron-2.2.0-2.fc7.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5320704L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-savage-2.1.3-1.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5480448L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-chips-1.1.1-5.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5648384L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-tdfx-1.3.0-6.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5734400L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-magictouch-1.0.0.5-5.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5746688L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.2.0-5.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5763072L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-trident-1.2.3-6.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 5943296L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-rendition-4.1.3-5.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 6070272L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-digitaledge-1.1.0-4.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', (9, '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root', 6090752L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.1.0-4.fc8.i386 needs 6MB on the /var/tmp/livecd-creator-IWpN5C/install_root filesystem', As you can see it seems it's a disk space problem, but I have 28 GO free, also I noticed that the size of the packaged reported in the error don't make any sense. I also noticed that when I try to build livecd-fedora-desktop-base, it works fine, strange... Any hints would be appreciated.

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What's needed to bring latest Fedora LiveCD Tools up to RHEL 5?
by Bryan J Smith 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

It's now clear I will make the time to help do this, as the LiveCD build system seems to be the best way to accomplish many goals I have. Some of this may require a fork of select packages from RHEL mainstream, I understand this. It's an external requirement in my case. livecd-tools is currently release 013-5.el5 in EPEL for RHEL 5 I know several have mentioned other components are involved. E.g., as Rahul pointed to me earlier, the CentOS guys have updated several components in their project (pykickstart, etc...): http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/i386/live/RPMS/ Ultimately I would like to make the system more flexible for various boots, if possible with that same framework. But that's more eccentric to my needs. I'd just like to address the few differences between Fedora and RHEL, even if that means a few packages are forked and unsupported (at least outside of GPS ;). -- Bryan J Smith - Senior Consultant - Red Hat GPS SE US mailto:bjs@redhat.com +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org (non-RH/ext to Blackberry) ----------------------------------------------------- For every dollar you spend on Red Hat solutions, you not only fund the leading community development re- source, but you receive the #1 IT industry leader in corporate value. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/

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Git access
by Pedro Silva 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi all! I've been trying to setup my git access to spin-kickstarts. I uploaded my id_rsa.pub to FAS2 and I have been granted write access. $ git push --verbose Pushing to git://git.fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts.git Looking up git.fedorahosted.org ... done. Connecting to git.fedorahosted.org (port 9418) ... 66.135.52.17 done. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly I changed .git/config url to ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git and I get this: $ git push --verbose Pushing to ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly What am I doing wrong? Best regards, Pedro Silva

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Boot time parameter differences in RHEL 5 from Fedora 9?
by Bryan J Smith 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Does RHEL 5 support booting an iso image in the initrd like 015+ supports with PXE? E.g., the "rootfstype=iso9660" and "rootflags=loop" options? Thanx! -- Bryan J Smith - Senior Consultant - Red Hat GPS SE US mailto:bjs@redhat.com +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org (non-RH/ext to Blackberry) ----------------------------------------------------- For every dollar you spend on Red Hat solutions, you not only fund the leading community development re- source, but you receive the #1 IT industry leader in corporate value. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/

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Fonts are getting chopped
by Todd N 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Hello, When booted to a Live CD produced with livecd-tools, and using the Gnome desktop, text on the desktop itself, and in the Firefox web browser, is displayed with parts of letters being chopped off. For the desktop itself, part of the first letter of each line of text is truncated on the left. In Firefox (version 3.0.1 in my case), lines of text are truncated on the top (about the upper 15-20% of every line). Has anyone else seen this, and if so do you know a way around it? If you'd like more details of my setup here, or more clarification of the problem (I have screen shots) please let me know. Thanks much, Todd

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livecd-creator problem
by kala 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

hi friends I had created a custom live cd using livecd tools, i have used fedora 8 and livecd-tools package of fedora 9(to implement persistent image function) with fedora 9 packages and it worked like a charm, now i wanted to repeat the process but surprisingly it gives me a error as Retrieving file:///root/Biofedora/repodata/filelists.xml.gz ...OK Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...ists.sqlite.bz2<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/repodata/…>...OK Retrieving file:///root/repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 ...OK Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...-1.fc9.i386.rpm<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/yum-packa…>...OK Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...-1.fc9.i386.rpm<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/PackageKi…>...OK Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...-2.fc9.i386.rpm<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/gnome-pac…>...OK Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...-5.fc9.i386.rpm<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/unique-0.…>...OK Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...-1.fc9.i386.rpm<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/PackageKi…>...OK Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...tion.noarch.rpm<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/fedora-re…>...OK Error creating Live CD : Dependency check failed! i did a bit googling but no successful solution , please friends help me out with this , -- kala bharath

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Re: LXDE on rawhide and LXDE Live CD spin
by Antonio Olivares 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Dear fellow testers, > > > > I welcome the arrival of LXDE on Fedora. Upon its > coming in, I wonder what are the requirements for it. I > have an old box that refuses to install Fedora 8, or Fedora > 9 because some driver or other detail kills the installation > process. I tried the XFCE spin and it fails to run as well > :(, but upon seeing the LXDE coming in, it might be a good > idea to try and install rawhide on this machine and install > LXDE, I can try on another older machine at school, but I > want to see if I can install ext4 or not when new Beta > release(s) appear for F10. > > > > Also upon Rahul's spin of XFCE live cd, how about > a spin of LXDE for those older machines. I can surely test > this as a colleage has very old machines which ran windows > 98 with 32/or 64 MB of Ram and if LXDE works under such > harsh, below average conditions, I can gladly and cheerfully > attempt to install Fedora with LXDE on those machines and > make the students test the machines out. Windows 98 freezes > most of the time and my colleage decided not to connect the > machines to avoid problems. But I think this is a great > opportunity to test LXDE and see if it can power on those > old machines. > > > > Any ideas, advice suggestions. I will try to convince > my colleague or otherwise borrow at least two machines to > make some tests. > > Follow > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo > > If you install livecd-tools and spin-kickstarts from > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448072 > > It is fairly easy to create a new spin based on existing > working > examples including xfce, kde, desktop ks files. Someone > would have to > volunteer to maintain it going forward however. That > requires more > commitment. > > Rahul Thank you again Rahul for your prompt response. I will take a look into it. This is a very promising desktop for older machines which we have plenty of at school. They might take some to the warehouse to auction them off, If I can get a livecd and inject some life into them with LXDE that would be great :) Regards, Antonio BTW, I have visited the following page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChristophWickert/FedoraLite but I cannot find out the end low requirements to get this working on a system or try it out with a livecd. I run rawhide and have the livecd-tools installed.

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Use a different init system?
by El Kindi REZIG 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hello everybody, Is it possible to use a different init system on my live cd, like initng which I want to make by default, is modifying GRUB sufficient to do it (init = /sbin/initng), or is there something else I have to do? I assume it's going to be ok, but when I put init = /sbin/initng, is it going to find it or do I have to add a different path?

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