fiddling with livecd-creator

[Andrew Farris]

subhodip biswas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> subhodip biswas wrote:
>>  > hi !
>>  > i have two questions. though unrelated still i asked them at once :
>>  > --------------------
>>  > i used  livecd-fedora-base-desktop.ks in order to built a live cd
>>  > using live cd creator . Now i am little bit worried about the packages
>>  > downloaded. Because it already did a 620 MB download. Have i done
>>  > anything wrong here.
>>  > I just needed a basic GNOME Desktop.
>>
>>  Check the desktop ks file and the base desktop ks file it depends on and
>>  add/remove programs as you wish. It is always better to have a local
>>  Fedora mirror of the needed packages if you are building a Live CD. Use
>>  the --cache option for avoiding repeated downloads.  If you already have
>>  a Live CD image and would just to add more packages to the existing
>>  image, use the -b option.
>>
> Thanx for the help.
>>  > One more question . Can Filesystem structure  be created within a
>>  > directory say /opt as in ltsp . if yes ..how ?
>>
>>  Not sure what you are trying to do here but mkdir <path>/foo/bar/bing
>>  works if you want to just create a series of directories.
>>
> yeah i know that but ,
> I just want to automate the creation of filesystem structure under any
> directory. thats just an experiment i want to do .

You can create a filesystem and mount it under any directory.  But you first 
have to create it.  Are you asking if it would be possible to automatically 
'create and mount by loopback' a filesystem under an empty directory?

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