[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator on RHEL5/FC6

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:37 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 00:47 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>    File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/imgcreate/fs.py", line 178, in expand
>>>      fd = os.open(self.lofile, flags)
>>> OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/var/tmp/imgcreate-oWHPY1/iso-GPC7L3/LiveOS/osmin'
>> 	This is a different error from the one you were seeing. The error you
>> were seeing didn't happen in this run.
>>
>> 	And this error is just as nonsensical as the last. Basically:
>>
>>   - open() failed with ENOTDIR, meaning that e.g. LiveOS is a file, not 
>>     a directory
>>
>>   - yet, we've just run mkdir() with that same directory path, which 
>>     should have failed with ENOTDIR too, if that was really the case
> 
> 	mkdir() fails with EEXIST, rather than ENOTDIR, if the last component
> of the path is a regular file.
> 
> 	The problem is your kickstart:
> 
>   if [ "$(uname -i)" = "i386" -o "$(uname -i)" = "x86_64" ]; then
>     cp /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk $LIVE_ROOT/LiveOS
>   fi
> 
> 	Try:
> 
>   if [ "$(uname -i)" = "i386" -o "$(uname -i)" = "x86_64" ]; then
>     mkdir -p $LIVE_ROOT/LiveOS/
>     cp /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk $LIVE_ROOT/LiveOS/
>   fi

Duh. I had to install anaconda-runtime too and I managed to create a 
live cd and it even boots!. I will experiment with it for some more time 
and submit it a package for EPEL. Thanks for all the patches and help.

Rahul