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

[Marc Herbert]

>> 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 set up the repo happily eg:
>>
>> repo --name=released 
>> --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-13&arch=i386
 
> I use --baseurl instead of --mirrorlist. Not sure it matters.

According to a short private discussion it seems hardcoding "repo
--baseurl" to "i386" is indeed enough. No need for "setarch" or anything else.

Since any x86_64 machine will happily boot an i386 image such
hardcoding might make sense not just to me but to you as well.
I do it because I want the simplicity to provide a single, universal
image for everyone.