[Fedora-livecd-list] Making content available on both sides of the live CD
Asheesh Laroia
asheesh at creativecommons.org
Tue Feb 5 01:09:41 UTC 2008
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Tim Wood wrote:
>>
>>> 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/
>>
>> Right - but if we're talking about gigabytes of photos and music, then
>> that's less than ideal space-wise. Hence my bringing up Hybrid CDs.
>
> So it sounds like you really want your gigabytes to be on the HFS side of the
> *DVD* right? That certainly isn't supported at the moment, though I suppose
> could be made to work. (I have no idea what a hybrid looks like
> (automounting and such) to the system currently).
Er, let me be clear - sorry!
I don't actually want a Hybrid disc. I want the data to be
available in the live Linux system, as well as Windows and OS X. Windows
and OS X can read ISO9660 just fine, so there's no need for HFS.
> This may be the relevent post, but doesn't add too much-
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2008-January/msg00080.html
Thanks - that is relevant, and now I feel silly for having asked the same
question in a separate thread earlier today. (-:
To ask a question that I think *hasn't* been asked:
Let's say I want to store big files in the ISO and symlink them to the
user's $HOME. What's the appropriate way to, as part of the bootup
process, mount the DVD? I noticed that, upon booting the live system,
"mount /dev/cdrom" simply told me that it /dev/cdrom wasn't in the fstab.
The /dev/cdrom symlink was set properly, so I could just add /dev/cdrom to
the fstab myself or issue a mount command from an init script. But is
that really the right way to automatically mount the disc from which the
live system is booting?
-- Asheesh.
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