[Fedora-livecd-list] Building i386 images on a x86_64 machine

[Philip Rhoades]

James,


On 2010-09-22 01:27, James Heather wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:09 +0100, Marc Herbert wrote:
>> Le 21/09/2010 02:58, Philip Rhoades aécrit :
>> >  I have some ks files that seem to be working in terms of building images
>> >  but I have problems booting the resulting i386 images both using CD/USB
>> >  and as virtual machines with qemu.
>>
>> I do this routinely without any issue of any kind and without using
>> any"mock"  commands (I do not even know what that is).  Could you
>> elaborate about how it fails?
>
> I have heard that others have had success with mock, but the easiest way
> is to use setarch. Instead of
>
> livecd-creator --config=...
>
> try
>
> setarch i686 livecd-creator --config=...
>
> (You might find it burps until you install some .i686 packages, but if
> so, you'll need to try it to find out what they are.)


Thanks for that - it makes a difference to the output file and booting 
gets a bit further but there are still problems (see following posts).

Regards,

Phil.
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