[Fedora-livecd-list] Making content available on both sides of the live CD

[Tim Wood]

I think you're looking for something like this.  If bob had a file 
called 'my_file.html' in his home directory, he'd do this to copy it to 
the root of the cd:

%post --nochroot
cp /home/bob/my_file.html $LIVE_ROOT/

fwiw, we had a more thorough discussion of this about a week ago on the 
list.

Tim



Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> I was talking earlier about putting content on the ISO to be read by 
> e.g. Windows users.  If I want to make that content available in the 
> live Fedora system also, what's the best way to do that?
>
> What I'm after is a directory on the live Fedora desktop that doesn't 
> waste space but shows the same content as the
>
> There were a couple of "obvious" ways I could think of, which I'll 
> refer to by one would achieve them:
>
> * mount --bind /media/cdrom/my_directory 
> /home/liveuser/Desktop/my_directory
>
> * ln -s /media/cdrom/my_directory /home/liveuser/Desktop/my_directory
>
> Both these can only expose the content read-only, which is acceptable 
> but less than amazing.
>
> * have a unionfs/aufs mount that exposes the ISO's content and lets 
> users write using "copy-up" semantics
>
> The downside of unionfs is that it adds complications.
>
> Given these choices, I'd go for the symlink.  Is that what you guys 
> would do?  Is there something I'm missing?
>
> One used to be able to make "hybrid CDs" (c.f. 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_CD ) that shared data between the 
> HFS filesystems and ISO9660 filesystems on them, but I imagine that's 
> not possible for the ISO9660 filesystem at the base of the 
> LiveCD-Creator disc and the squashfs inside it - right?
>
> Thanks for the quick and sharp replies!
>
> -- Asheesh.
>


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