[Fedora-livecd-list] CentOS 7 support?

Locane locane at gmail.com
Mon May 18 20:00:50 UTC 2015


Followup - after getting in to the code to see what was up, the rhpl
library is only attempted after system_config_keyboard is not present.

I was able to get a successful run after typing:

yum -y install system-config-keyboard

For some reason, CentOS 7 didn't come with this package by default.

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Locane <locane at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Grant.
>
> I can't seem to get livecd--tools to work under CentOS 7 at all - the
> "rhpl" package has apparently been removed, and livecd-tools requires it to
> run.
>
> I found it in the rpmforge repository, but the package requires Python 2.6
> - CentOS 7 is Python 2.7 (the entire reason for the upgrade on my end, in
> fact).
>
> Secondly, Lorax doesn't appear to do what I need it to do - I need to
> generate a LiveCD image from a custom kickstart file, and it looks like
> Lorax creates an install ISO, not an image designed to come up and run
> utilities, perform operations and actions from RAM.
>
> Do you have any more suggestions?  I'm about to just start commenting out
> code and see if that helps.
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Grant Williamson <traxtopel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Centos 7 uses livecd-tools, there are rpms available if you google.
>> EL7 includes lorax which also works fine.
>>
>>  at 12:43 -0700, Locane wrote:
>> > Does anyone know if livecd-tools will support CentOS 7 at some point?
>> >
>> >
>> > Are there alternative LiveCD making tools that might run more reliably
>> > for creating a CentOS 7 LiveCD?
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm currently using livecd-tools to build CentOS 6 images for a PXE
>> > server, and it's been working ok, but I'm starting to get deprecation
>> > warnings and need to move up.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance everyone.
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