Asheesh Laroia wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Tim Wood wrote:
>>
>>> I think you're looking for something like this. If bob had a file
>>> called 'my_file.html' in his home directory, he'd do this to copy
it
>>> to the root of the cd:
>>>
>>> %post --nochroot
>>> cp /home/bob/my_file.html $LIVE_ROOT/
>>
>> Right - but if we're talking about gigabytes of photos and music,
>> then that's less than ideal space-wise. Hence my bringing up Hybrid
>> CDs.
>
> So it sounds like you really want your gigabytes to be on the HFS side
> of the *DVD* right? That certainly isn't supported at the moment,
> though I suppose could be made to work. (I have no idea what a hybrid
> looks like (automounting and such) to the system currently).
Er, let me be clear - sorry!
I don't actually want a Hybrid disc. I want the data to be available in
the live Linux system, as well as Windows and OS X. Windows and OS X
can read ISO9660 just fine, so there's no need for HFS.
> This may be the relevent post, but doesn't add too much-
>
>
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2008-January/msg00080....
>
Thanks - that is relevant, and now I feel silly for having asked the
same question in a separate thread earlier today. (-:
Don't worry, you are just bringing more attention to the need of better
documentation.
To ask a question that I think *hasn't* been asked:
Let's say I want to store big files in the ISO and symlink them to the
user's $HOME. What's the appropriate way to, as part of the bootup
process, mount the DVD? I noticed that, upon booting the live system,
"mount /dev/cdrom" simply told me that it /dev/cdrom wasn't in the
fstab. The /dev/cdrom symlink was set properly, so I could just add
/dev/cdrom to the fstab myself or issue a mount command from an init
script. But is that really the right way to automatically mount the
disc from which the live system is booting?
I think the answer you are looking for is /mnt/live.
It will be mounted, and refers to the cdrom iso9660, or the fs that
hosts the LiveOS on a LiveUSB.
-dmc