[Fedora-livecd-list]

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 20:42 -0500, Jasper O'neal Hartline wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >As I said, with Bill's stateless changes for read-only root, this can
> >get to a multi-user boot now.  To make things easier, I've gone ahead
> >and created an hg repository.  You can clone it with
> >  hg clone http://hg.fedoraproject.org/hg/fedora/livecd--devel
> >
> >For some more information about Mercurial, I'll just currently point to
> >the information that the OLPC guys have been kind enough to put up at
> >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC/MercurialQuickstart 
> >
> To take Murcurial for a quick spin, I've quickly modified what is 
> present to use SquashFS.
> This is slightly different than what is in Kadischi CVS, as we pass the 
> ctree dir to post_scripts
> and we use ctree in 06sysconfig.py, rather than remove the tweak_livecd 
> from it.
> 
> Attached is livecd-squashfs.hg.

Also needed will be updating livecd-mkrootdev to find a loop device and
use it for mounting the squashfs.  

We'll probably also want to write out an /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd with a
MODULES line prior to running anaconda, so that the proper modules[1]
end up in the initramfs as generated during the install.

Jeremy

[1] This will also let us add a set of "common" scsi and sata
controllers so that people who are using a CD drive attached to one of
these could use the live CD