[Fedora-livecd-list] Building a LiveCD

[Gary Thomas]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 05:24 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:56 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> For example, I'd like to use my own local repositories (I
>>>> work with custom systems that aren't 100% in the public trees).
>>>> How do I modify the kickstart file to handle this?
>>> Repositories to use are defined by the 'repo' lines.  You can use
>>> something like
>>>   repo --name=foo --baseurl=http://some.web.site.com/path/to/my/repo
>>>   repo --name=bar --baseurl=file:///path/to/a/local/one
>>>   repo --name=baz --mirrorlist=http://some.site.com/path/to/mirrorlist
>>>
>>> Baseurl and mirrorlist are used exactly as they are with yum.
>> This helped and I was able to build an image.  Sadly, it failed
>> with the oft-reported problem of not finding the CDROM root device
>> (no CDROM driver in image?)  I need to investigate this some.
> 
> Some macs are apparently still using old IDE; I added ide-cd to the list
> of modules being pulled in earlier to account for this
> 
>>>> Also, I'm interested in building a LiveCD for PowerPC (that's
>>>> my target base).  I assume that I need to do this from a PPC
>>>> host?  Is there any other magic required?
>>> Correct.  Also, the ppc support may have bugs and only boot on a small
>>> subset of ppc platforms.  It's had very little in the way of testing.  I
>>> pushed a few little fixes for it today.
>> Thanks for the info.  Forgive an outsider's question, but how can I
>> access these changes (read only GIT pull would be fine)?
> 
> You can get an anonymous clone of current git via
>   git clone git://git.fedoraproject.org/hosted/livecd 

Perfect - I updated to the GIT version and now it boots on
my two test systems.  Now, on to the interesting work of
getting it to go on my non-standard platforms :-)

Thanks

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