I'm getting a strange error with the latest livecds. They are custom made but the changes I made to the kickstart files concern my own scripts and extra packages I want to have in the livecd. This started to occur in the lastest 3-4 weeks. I cannot say when exactly it started to apper. I filed a kernel-bug here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823205 but maybe this is a devicemapper problem. I know that there were some changes to the livecd-tools and lorax packges so maybe something there introduced this bug. Can someone take a look at it? More information can be found in my bug report.
--Joshua
It is generally not a good idea to try to install extra packages when running the livecd. The relationship between the device-mapper and the size of the packages isn't 1:1 so you are likely to run out of space.
2012/5/29 Brian C. Lane bcl@redhat.com:
It is generally not a good idea to try to install extra packages when running the livecd. The relationship between the device-mapper and the size of the packages isn't 1:1 so you are likely to run out of space.
-- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
Yes, but with 16GB RAM it shouldn't be that easy to hit the limit. My root partition has 10GB size and usually I have about 6,5GB free. So installung some packages shouldn't be a problem. As I already wrote this behaviour started to appear about 3-4 ago. What I saw at almost the same time was that my iso images schrank with about 25-30MB in size. This isn't just a coincidence...
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Joshua C. joshuacov@googlemail.com wrote:
2012/5/29 Brian C. Lane bcl@redhat.com:
It is generally not a good idea to try to install extra packages when running the livecd. The relationship between the device-mapper and the size of the packages isn't 1:1 so you are likely to run out of space.
-- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA
(PST8PDT)
Yes, but with 16GB RAM it shouldn't be that easy to hit the limit. My root partition has 10GB size and usually I have about 6,5GB free. So installung some packages shouldn't be a problem. As I already wrote this behaviour started to appear about 3-4 ago. What I saw at almost the same time was that my iso images schrank with about 25-30MB in size. This isn't just a coincidence...
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-- joshua
The root filesystem of Fedora live CD images are compressed into a SquashFS image and a permanent or temporary virtual filesystem overlay is provided by device-mapper for write-once storage space.
See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image for more information.
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