fiddling with livecd-creator
Andrew Farris
lordmorgul at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 19:59:28 UTC 2008
subhodip biswas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> subhodip biswas wrote:
>> > hi !
>> > i have two questions. though unrelated still i asked them at once :
>> > --------------------
>> > i used livecd-fedora-base-desktop.ks in order to built a live cd
>> > using live cd creator . Now i am little bit worried about the packages
>> > downloaded. Because it already did a 620 MB download. Have i done
>> > anything wrong here.
>> > I just needed a basic GNOME Desktop.
>>
>> Check the desktop ks file and the base desktop ks file it depends on and
>> add/remove programs as you wish. It is always better to have a local
>> Fedora mirror of the needed packages if you are building a Live CD. Use
>> the --cache option for avoiding repeated downloads. If you already have
>> a Live CD image and would just to add more packages to the existing
>> image, use the -b option.
>>
> Thanx for the help.
>> > One more question . Can Filesystem structure be created within a
>> > directory say /opt as in ltsp . if yes ..how ?
>>
>> Not sure what you are trying to do here but mkdir <path>/foo/bar/bing
>> works if you want to just create a series of directories.
>>
> yeah i know that but ,
> I just want to automate the creation of filesystem structure under any
> directory. thats just an experiment i want to do .
You can create a filesystem and mount it under any directory. But you first
have to create it. Are you asking if it would be possible to automatically
'create and mount by loopback' a filesystem under an empty directory?
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