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

Tim Wood tim.wood at datawranglers.com
Wed Jan 23 14:36:06 UTC 2008


Would it make sense to add anaconda (and before f8, anaconda-runtime) as 
requirements of livecd-tools?



Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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
>
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