[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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Wade Mealing
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