[Fedora-livecd-list]

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 11:25 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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.

... and in writing my footnote, I lost the last part -- that overall,
this looks pretty good

Jeremy