[Fedora-livecd-list] Working to support multiple images from a medium

[Joshua C.]

2009/2/2 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>:
> 1) Boot loader config
> There are a couple of possibilities here... the simplest would just be
> that we edit the syslinux.cfg and append more entries.  A little bit
> more complicated would be to just have a simple "top-level" syslinux.cfg
> which uses CONFIG directives to load the additional config files.  Third
> would be a com32 module to iterate and set up the menu items
> automatically.  I lean towards the second, at least for at first.
>
> 2) How to know the new directory
> There are multiple places scattered that have hard-coded looking for
> LiveOS.  There's the initrd, there's the livesys initscript and there's
> livecd-iso-to-disk/liveusb-creator.  While we could add a kernel command
> line option[1] and go and change each of these to set it/respect it, it
> feels like maybe the less general solution.  Maybe it's just that we
> should always have livelabel= available so that we can use it other
> places ?  I don't know.  Open to other thoughts and suggestions.
>
> What do people think?  Is this worth doing?  Other ideas on
> implementation?  Anyone want to start whipping up any patches?
>
> Jeremy
>

This is what I've done in the last 3-4 months. I even have onepsuse
and rawhide on my usb-key. They are in separeted directories and both
work fine. Editing syslinux.cfg is simple enough to make the changes,
but an automated script will be better. Great idea.