[Fedora-livecd-list] Making content available on both sides of the live CD
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Tue Feb 5 01:27:56 UTC 2008
Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> 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. (-:
Don't worry, you are just bringing more attention to the need of better
documentation.
> 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?
I think the answer you are looking for is /mnt/live.
It will be mounted, and refers to the cdrom iso9660, or the fs that
hosts the LiveOS on a LiveUSB.
-dmc
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