[Fedora-livecd-list] using %post -nochroot

[dcw]

on Saturday 19 January 2008 2:15 pm, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> dcw wrote:
> > Using livecd-creator (ver. 13-4) I have made a livecd with a recompiled
> > kernel and it boots and works. I am now at the point of copying some
> > configuration files from the hard drive to the livecd using the
> > livecd-creator program.
> >
> > The following method works:
> > %post
> > echo "nameserver 10.10.2.99" > /etc/resolv.conf
> >
> > but I would like to use:
> > %post -nochroot
> > cp /etc/resolv.conf > /somewhere/etc/resolv.conf
> >
> > I have not been able to determine what 'somewhere' should be.
> >
> > I have never programed in python but I have looked through the
> > livecd-creator program and made several 'best' guesses but I have not
> > found anything that works. I have also searched the internet and I have
> > found nothing that addresses this.
> >
> > The documentation on
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guid
> >e/s1-kickstart2-postinstallconfig.html says to:
> >
> > %post --nochroot
> > cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/sysimage/etc/resolv.conf
> >
> > /mnt/sysimage does not exist.
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated,
>
> Yeah, documentation is lacking right now.  I see that Tim and Jeremy
> answered this while I was pasting this mail together, but since this
> response adds a bit more, I'll go ahead and send it.
>
> Here is the same help I just gave Mike Dickson a couple days ago-
>
> --------------
> 1) to add some arbitrary file (300M mpeg) to the resulting LiveCD ISO
> image-
>
> in your own config/kickstart, you can add a section like the following
> (note, you can just add this, as there can be multiple of these %post
> sections)

Thanks for your quick response. Knowing that there can be multiple %post
sections will be useful.

> %post --nochroot
>
> mkdir $INSTALL_ROOT/usr/share/extramedia
> cp /home/mdickson/some.mpeg \
> $INSTALL_ROOT/usr/share/extramedia/
>
> mkdir $LIVE_ROOT/momedia
> cp /home/mdickson/someother.mpeg \
> $LIVE_ROOT/momedia/
>
> %end

$LIVE_ROOT is also good to know.

David

> Note, the first part, will add the file to the root filesystem that is
> visible when you boot up the livecd/usb.  And as a result will be
> compressed during the build process (but obviously not well, as mpeg is
> already compressed as much as it can).
>
> The second part (using LIVE_ROOT instead of INSTALL_ROOT), will add the
> file to the cdrom filesysem, uncompressed.  As such, the user could for
> instance easily see the file if they dropped the cdrom into a windows
> system (on the cdrom, under the top level folder 'momedia').
>
> -dmc
>
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