Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Building a LiveCD
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:56 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I follow this list and have read the README and Wiki, but
> I still have questions. To start, is there any documentation
> other than the sources (the README and Wiki are pretty sparse).
> Most of my questions are detailed and not x86 mainline :-)
The README is really the extent of the current docs... patches
cheerfully accepted :-) And there should be kickstart syntax docs
floating around, although I don't remember where off-hand... I'll try
to remember to ask clumens tomorrow
Once I learn enough to make such comments/changes, I'll see what
I can do to help improve the docs.
> For example, I'd like to use my own local repositories (I
> work with custom systems that aren't 100% in the public trees).
> How do I modify the kickstart file to handle this?
Repositories to use are defined by the 'repo' lines. You can use
something like
repo --name=foo --baseurl=http://some.web.site.com/path/to/my/repo
repo --name=bar --baseurl=file:///path/to/a/local/one
repo --name=baz --mirrorlist=http://some.site.com/path/to/mirrorlist
Baseurl and mirrorlist are used exactly as they are with yum.
This helped and I was able to build an image. Sadly, it failed
with the oft-reported problem of not finding the CDROM root device
(no CDROM driver in image?) I need to investigate this some.
BTW - I'm testing this on a Mac Mini and also iBook. Once I get
it working, I'll move on to my custom hardware.
> Also, I'm interested in building a LiveCD for PowerPC
(that's
> my target base). I assume that I need to do this from a PPC
> host? Is there any other magic required?
Correct. Also, the ppc support may have bugs and only boot on a small
subset of ppc platforms. It's had very little in the way of testing. I
pushed a few little fixes for it today.
Thanks for the info. Forgive an outsider's question, but how can I
access these changes (read only GIT pull would be fine)?
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