[Fedora-livecd-list] LiveCD from current install

[Marcelo Guazzardo]

Fred:

Thank you for you repply. I was playing with editliveos, and I created my
own spin, using the chroot shell. But... I would like ask you if I took a
tar.gz from my current install and uncompress it, in the chroot shell for
editliveos, should it work?. I tried it, but I received a locale error, and
then, the python scripts failed, and delete the squashfs.

are there any flag for debug editliveos?. Thanks in advance.




2012/9/23 Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Marcelo Guazzardo <
> mguazzardo76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi All:
>>
>> I would like to make a livecd from my current install. I tried with
>> revisor and other tools, but, all those tools create an iso from an
>> kickstart file, and then, I should copy my customs configurations. I have
>> try to create a squashfs file, and then replace it in the FC 17 LiveCD. I
>> could boot succesfully, but, when anaconda starts, I allways gets an error.
>>
>> I have several questions about creation of Livecd.
>>
>> How create a DM Snapshot , like osmin.img . I have search about this
>> file, apparently and lvm cow snapshot, but I didn't find how generate this
>> file.
>>
>
> Device-mapper snapshots are created in the DeviceMapperSnapshot class,
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/livecd/tree/imgcreate/fs.py#n532
>
> (The args Python list variable provides the elements of a Bash command
> line, dmsetup create.)
>
> The basic steps to create osmin.img are described in the create_image_minimizer()
> function in fs.py,
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/livecd/tree/imgcreate/fs.py#n612
>
> The Python functions usually resolve to a Bash command.
>
>  I was studying the livecd-creator code, but I didn't understand the
>> python code. ¿Anyone here knows what are the steps in bash to create the
>> snapshot, and the lvm snapshot? (osmin.img and squashfs.img files ).
>>
>
>> Any hint will be appreciated.
>>
>
>  The README, has a section 2.1 How the Live CD Creator Works,
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/livecd/tree/README#n47
> that describes the basic steps.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
>> Marcelo Guazzardo
>> mguazzardo76 at gmail.com
>> Fedora Ambassador for Argentina.-
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>
>
> The Fedora livecd-tools package contains a Python script, edit-livecd, to
> rebuild a livecd from a customized LiveOS image,
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/livecd/tree/tools/edit-livecd
>
> I have been working on a more feature full version, editliveos,
>
> http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/~FGrose/soas/sugar-clone-extensions.git/tree/editliveos
>
> It includes several new options for adjusting the image filesystem size as
> well as home.img and overlay file sizes. See this wiki section for the
> --help listing:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone#editliveos.help
>
> It includes editliveos.py plus liveimage-mount, and temporary versions of
> fs.py, live.py, creator.py, util.py (pending incremental patches for
> livecd-tools acceptance). The livecd-iso-to-disk installation script is a
> new version that uses chroot to run from the embedded source filesystem.
> There is also a new Bash script, LiveOS-merge, for merging a LiveOS
> snapshot and refreshing an installation with the new image. (A new
> osmin.img is not created, but it is only used during installation of a
> traditional image from a LiveOS image.)
>
>          --Fred
>
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