Fedora 19 image on EC2

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:53:44AM -0400, Andy Grimm wrote:
> I made an effort to get a Fedora 19 image running in EC2 this week, and in
> the end, I undid a couple of the recent changes to make it work for me.
> Here's a brief overview of what I did:
> 1) appliance-creator was giving me an error when the "part" line of the
> kickstart had no "ondisk" option, so I added "--ondisk xvda".  This
> shouldn't be needed, but it helped in my case.

I have a patch to appliance-creator which _should_ make this optional --
Dennis is going to take over upstream maintenance and I think will include
that. 

Is "xvda" right for _within_ appliance-creator?

> 2) I also commented out the "Zeroing out empty space" postinstall stuff,
> because it drastically increases the image build time for not much benefit,
> IMHO.

One time image build cost vs. whatever benefit multipled by every time the
image is used. :)


> 9) I removed the "splashimage" line from grub.conf, because it's certainly
> not useful and could be harmful

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963294

> 10) I copied /boot/grub/grub.conf to /boot/grub/menu.lst, because I don't
> know whether pvgrub in EC2 reliably reads both files (it's supposed to).

I think it'll be okay either way, but maybe we should make a symlink?


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