[Fedora-livecd-list] Building CentOS5 Live CD on F10

[Bryan J Smith]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:58 -0500, Forrest Taylor wrote:
> That explains why the newer livecd-tools didn't work.  However, why
> didn't it work in F10?  I.e., why can't I create a CentOS5 Live CD in
> Fedora 10?

Anaconda, PyKickstart and mkinitrd are all inter-twined.  Anything after
013 fails for RHEL 5 without modification such as a newer Anaconda,
PyKickstart and/or mkinitrd.  I know there was some work with 015 and
CentOS 5 which uses newer components.

To get RHEL 5 to work for a thin client project, I "stole" the
updateDiskless (mkinitrd replacement) and disklessrc (initrd init
replacement) from old system-config-netboot and made some minor
modifications.  There are some current drivers inside of Red Hat to
modify RHEL 5 mkinitrd, which Warren is working on.

  http://bjs-redhat.livejournal.com/681.html  
  http://wtogami.livejournal.com/28896.html  

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