[Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora "builder" CD
Wade Mealing
wmealing at redhat.com
Thu Jun 16 03:58:29 UTC 2005
> Hi,
>
> Here is what I am going to do with the next version of ADIOS live CD so
> why not Fedora "builder" CD. I am including squashfs and unionfs as
> part of the kernel.
>
> So my suggestion is that standard Fedora kernel have these modules or
> similar, then it is easy to create a "builder" CD on the fly, just
> create a "root_fs" filesystem on a spare partition or directly into a
> 2GByte loopback filesystem. This root_fs filesystem is then placed
> within a squashfs filesystem. This only requires the startup process
> using say isolinux+busybox+vmlinuz+initrd.gz (or whatever) to mount the
> squashfs, create a ram drive for read-write, then mount the loopback
> using unionfs, a few extra "if" statements in rc.sysinit (or rc.bootcd)
> and then the live CD works.
>
Neville,
Are the scripts used for ADIOS liveCD available under the GPL to the
public. I may have missed something, is there any chance I get the
source code ?
Wade
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