some questions on making a LiveCD

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

I am trying to put together a LiveCD using the SLiM login manager on
Fedora 18. I have two questions:

1. How do I get slim to start up in the LiveCD boot. I have been
using the fedora-livecd-lxde.ks as a template. Before Fedora 17, I used
to put the following in my kickstart file:

# create /etc/sysconfig/desktop (needed for installation)
cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop <<EOF
PREFERRED=/usr/bin/pekwm
DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/slim-dynwm
EOF

I noticed that slim has moved from sbin/ to bin/ so I made the change,
but I can not get this to start up when booting from a LiveCD. How do I
get this to start up? I tried including systemctl enable slim but I
still can not get it to display the Login Manager. (I do get the text
prompt.) How do I fix this?

2. I have a few rpms of my own i would like to include in the
LiveCD. How can this be done? Are there examples somewhere that I could
look at?

Many thanks,
Ranjan

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> How do I get slim to start up in the LiveCD boot. I have been
>
> using the fedora-livecd-lxde.ks as a template. Before Fedora 17, I
> used
> to put the following in my kickstart file:
>
> # create /etc/sysconfig/desktop (needed for installation)
> cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop <<EOF
> PREFERRED=/usr/bin/pekwm
> DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/slim-dynwm
> EOF
>
> I noticed that slim has moved from sbin/ to bin/ so I made the change,
> but I can not get this to start up when booting from a LiveCD. How do I
> get this to start up? I tried including systemctl enable slim but I
> still can not get it to display the Login Manager. (I do get the text
> prompt.) How do I fix this?

Yes, systemd has taken over and you set the display manager by enabling it.  So your systemctl enable slim.service should do it assuming there is a systemd target file for slim.
> I have a few rpms of my own i would like to include in the
>
> LiveCD. How can this be done? Are there examples somewhere that I
> could look at?

That's easy.  Just take your rpms and put them in a web accessible directory, cd to that directory and run "createrepo .".  Of course you need to have createrepo installed for that to work.  Then just add a reference for your new repo in your kickstart file just like your other repos... and then add your packages to your package list.  If you don't have a webserver handy you can do it on the same system with a file:// reference I think.

TYL,

[James Heather]

> > I have a few rpms of my own i would like to include in the
> >
> > LiveCD. How can this be done? Are there examples somewhere that I
> > could look at?
>
> That's easy.  Just take your rpms and put them in a web accessible directory, cd to that directory and run "createrepo .".  Of course you need to have createrepo installed for that to work.  Then just add a reference for your new repo in your kickstart file just like your other repos... and then add your packages to your package list.  If you don't have a webserver handy you can do it on the same system with a file:// reference I think.

Yes, I do this with local files. The RPMs are
in /usr/local/share/localrepo, and I've run createrepo on that
directory. The kickstart file contains this:

repo --name="Local bits" --baseurl=file:///usr/local/share/localrepo/

James

[Ranjan Maitra]

Thanks very much!

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 08:03:24 -0600 Scott Dowdle
 wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > How do I get slim to start up in the LiveCD boot. I have been
> >
> > using the fedora-livecd-lxde.ks as a template. Before Fedora 17, I
> > used
> > to put the following in my kickstart file:
> >
> > # create /etc/sysconfig/desktop (needed for installation)
> > cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop <<EOF
> > PREFERRED=/usr/bin/pekwm
> > DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/slim-dynwm
> > EOF
> >
> > I noticed that slim has moved from sbin/ to bin/ so I made the change,
> > but I can not get this to start up when booting from a LiveCD. How do I
> > get this to start up? I tried including systemctl enable slim but I
> > still can not get it to display the Login Manager. (I do get the text
> > prompt.) How do I fix this?
>
> Yes, systemd has taken over and you set the display manager by enabling it.  So your systemctl enable slim.service should do it assuming there is a systemd target file for slim.

But where do I put this in the .ks file? I am able to get slim to
startup after installing from the LiveCD (which makes me assume that
there is a systemd target file), but not while booting off the
LiveCD.

I am attaching my current .ks file.
> > I have a few rpms of my own i would like to include in the
> >
> > LiveCD. How can this be done? Are there examples somewhere that I
> > could look at?
>
> That's easy.  Just take your rpms and put them in a web accessible directory, cd to that directory and run "createrepo .".  Of course you need to have createrepo installed for that to work.  Then just add a reference for your new repo in your kickstart file just like your other repos... and then add your packages to your package list.  If you don't have a webserver handy you can do it on the same system with a file:// reference I think.

Thanks, I will try this. I tried the following

repo --name=MyRepo --baseurl=file://home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS

But livecd-creator complained and refused to proceed so for now, and
till I resolve 1., I have commented this out.

Thanks again for your suggestions!

Best wishes,
Ranjan

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[James Heather]

> Thanks, I will try this. I tried the following
>
> repo --name=MyRepo --baseurl=file://home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS
>
> But livecd-creator complained and refused to proceed so for now, and
> till I resolve 1., I have commented this out.

Not enough slashes! You want 'file:///' rather than 'file://'. (The
'file://' part specifies that you're picking up a local file; you need
one more '/' to tell it that you're specifying an absolute path, i.e., a
file path that itself begins with '/'.)

James

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 15:13:50 +0100 James Heather
 wrote:
> > > I have a few rpms of my own i would like to include in the
> > >
> > > LiveCD. How can this be done? Are there examples somewhere that I
> > > could look at?
> >
> > That's easy.  Just take your rpms and put them in a web accessible directory, cd to that directory and run "createrepo .".  Of course you need to have createrepo installed for that to work.  Then just add a reference for your new repo in your kickstart file just like your other repos... and then add your packages to your package list.  If you don't have a webserver handy you can do it on the same system with a file:// reference I think.
>
> Yes, I do this with local files. The RPMs are
> in /usr/local/share/localrepo, and I've run createrepo on that
> directory. The kickstart file contains this:
>     repo --name="Local bits" --baseurl=file:///usr/local/share/localrepo/

Thanks! I will try this. Maybe I did not "createrepo" correctly. I will
try it again.
> James
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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 15:23:58 +0100 James Heather
 wrote:
> > Thanks, I will try this. I tried the following
> >
> > repo --name=MyRepo --baseurl=file://home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS
> >
> > But livecd-creator complained and refused to proceed so for now, and
> > till I resolve 1., I have commented this out.
>
> Not enough slashes! You want 'file:///' rather than 'file://'. (The
> 'file://' part specifies that you're picking up a local file; you need
> one more '/' to tell it that you're specifying an absolute path, i.e., a
> file path that itself begins with '/'.)

I see! Thanks very much for this!!

Best wishes,
Ranjan
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