<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> Thanks, I will use this one. MikeD On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 13:22 -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Mike Dickson wrote: > Is there any chance of getting a current version of RHEL into the Live > CD + Persistence game? Were you ever able to test those patches I sent you a couple months back (on fedora)? (and for the most part, posted to this list) For me, they do basically work in trivial testing scenarios. The main problem I have mustering any enjoyment developing them is the utter grossness of what it takes to patch the standard /etc/rc.d/init.d halt and functions file. (which is needed to defer unmounting of persistence device until after readonly remounting of rootfs). I do have an alternate distribution method of the feature, which makes it more of a proof of concept "live iso patch" to the official f8 livecd, but it's still the same code and mechanism. The same fragility may still apply to my method that I mentioned months ago, i.e. that it may become unrecoverably corrupted if not shutdown cleanly. But I suspect that if I can make the distribution of it as easy as a 'patch' to apply to the f8 livecd, and get some testers, that that problem can be solved (pure speculation). My time estimates are usually overly ambitious, but I'll try to get that iso-patch posted in a couple hours. And as I responded long ago to the original criticism of the ugliness of the halt&functions patching- I totally agree, and am open to suggestions. Attached is the last patch I sent Mike, which is pretty close to what I last posted to this list. It's still useful if anyone is interested in trying to understand the method I'm using. The main thing to simplify reading it, is a) ignore the 'overlay=auto' code path. It's a nice feature, but complexity that should wait for the future when the base case is well understood, tested and stable. The base case being b) assume the only use of the patch is with the modified livecd-iso-to-disk. I.e. the new usage would be livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 128 /path/to/f8.iso /dev/sdb1 which would initialize a 128M persistence file and cause the bootloader on the liveusb to use it. I.e. the syslinux append line goes from root=UUID=abcd-1234 to root=UUID=abcd-1234 overlay=UUID=abcd-1234 Then, try to ignore the horrendously ugly selinux magic act required to patch halt&functions, and just look at the contents of the halt.patch and functions.patch. -dmc -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list <A HREF="mailto:Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com">Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com</A> <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>