From jasperhartline at adelphia.net Thu Nov 3 18:59:05 2005 From: jasperhartline at adelphia.net (Jasper Hartline) Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:59:05 -0600 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] kadischi rpm packaging Message-ID: <436A5DF9.6040807@adelphia.net> Curious if and when kadischi is in the correct stage for packaging. I have a built a package and it works fine provided you have /bin/ash(among other reqs). The thing still needs a work such as, the directories need specified, the DOCS need specified, and I know of one config file, I am also curious what other files qualify as cobfig file in the kadischi CVS. build.conf is the only one I know of. Thanks for your time. J. Hartline. From gdk at redhat.com Thu Nov 3 19:02:29 2005 From: gdk at redhat.com (Greg DeKoenigsberg) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:02:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] kadischi rpm packaging In-Reply-To: <436A5DF9.6040807@adelphia.net> References: <436A5DF9.6040807@adelphia.net> Message-ID: One question: Does this package presume that you've already patched Anaconda? Surely you're not having the package step on Anaconda. :) --g _____________________ ____________________________________________ Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the ] [ dumb. --mcluhan On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Jasper Hartline wrote: > Curious if and when kadischi is in the correct stage for packaging. > I have a built a package and it works fine provided you have > /bin/ash(among other reqs). > The thing still needs a work such as, the directories need specified, > the DOCS need specified, and I know of one config > file, I am also curious what other files qualify as cobfig file in the > kadischi CVS. build.conf is the only one I know of. > > Thanks for your time. > J. Hartline. > > -- > Fedora-livecd-list mailing list > Fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list > From jasperhartline at adelphia.net Fri Nov 4 15:45:58 2005 From: jasperhartline at adelphia.net (Jasper Hartline) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:45:58 -0600 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] kadischi rpm packaging In-Reply-To: References: <436A5DF9.6040807@adelphia.net> Message-ID: <436B8236.8090208@adelphia.net> Surely not, as far as I know, generally it is unnacceptable for one package to modify files of another package. Yes, it could be done, but no, it wouldn't be in the package to my knowledge to patch anaconda and flags.py. I think this is what you are asking. I know this because of the ongoing things with Livna's ati-fglrx and nvidia-glx packages, and the xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL package in Base. Plus, I, personally would not want a package to modify any files from another package because: 1) This would cause rpm -qV to come up with status of something has been changed. 2) If those files were for another purpose on the machine, you wouldn't know it unless %post spammed your terminal :-P which is also unacceptable. Ultimately to answer your question, no, the package wouldn't involve patching of Anaconda files on installation. Any constructive critisizm? Thanks. J. Hartline Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: >One question: > >Does this package presume that you've already patched Anaconda? Surely >you're not having the package step on Anaconda. :) > >--g > >_____________________ ____________________________________________ > Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have > Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the > Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the > ] [ dumb. --mcluhan > > > From tony at tgds.net Tue Nov 8 08:08:20 2005 From: tony at tgds.net (tony) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:08:20 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] installing from liveCD Message-ID: <1131437300.751.81.camel@hush.localdomain> Hi, I read that Ubuntu is about to release a liveCD that can be installed to the HD. I would like my liveCD to be able to do that. Can it be done already with kickstart? Second in order to get around various problems concerning dvdcss and other multimedia libraries and programs I need but which have "issues" can I have a user clickable button to do a yum install with sudo? I don't see why not, but would like to know if anyone has ever done this kind of thing. Third I am having trouble with encrypted passwords for my default user. What is the best way of encrypting the password then getting the encrypted text to install in my liveCD? TIA Tony -- Tony Grant www.tgds.net - vente d'ordinateurs mini-itx en ligne www.tgds.net/epiaix1.html - A fedora Core 4 based live CD for VIA Epia-M From byte at aeon.com.my Tue Nov 8 11:24:41 2005 From: byte at aeon.com.my (Colin Charles) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:24:41 +1100 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Booting from Flash? In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050929102137.0414bb78@email.simulation.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050929102137.0414bb78@email.simulation.com> Message-ID: <1131449081.3009.615.camel@potter.soho.bytebot.net> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 10:24 -0400, Darren Humphrey wrote: > I am having some success making a bootable livecd, but my ultimate goal is > to boot from a compact flash card. > > I found an article from someone who did it with knoppix: > > http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8275095591.html > > Any ideas on how to do the same with Fedora? AFAIK, anaconda doesn't support installation on a CF. However, if you get a minimal package set installed on a CF adapter (that masks it as ide), use clever mount options (minimise writes), I'm sure you can boot off CF A lot of these boards have an ide controller that use a cf as a disk. However, a minimal package set will not be small... -- Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/ From skunkworx at verizon.net Wed Nov 9 04:04:32 2005 From: skunkworx at verizon.net (Skunk Worx) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:04:32 -0800 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] X11 and desktop speedups? Message-ID: <43717550.5010701@verizon.net> I've had a lot of luck filling the ks %post are with customizations, yum updating, adding custom packages, etc. Also getting comfortable modifying the /livecd/kadischi.tar.gz files to populate /root with some needed KDE menus and scripts, etc. Also am getting a handle on the py and sh scripts. I've noticed I have to append "smp" to the kernel version in kadischi.py to get an smp kernel. Maybe there could be a command line option for smp? Just an idea. Right now I'm trying to come up with some way to speed up X11 and the desktop launch. It seems pretty slow compared to knoppix. I assume it's the decompression of the lib and bin files, not sure. Has anyone come up with a way to speed things up? I'm guessing I can either save some bins and libs to media uncompressed (just as the kernel, kadaschi.tar.gz, initrd, isolinux, etc. are) or maybe decompress tarballs on startup into a ramdisk or some such. Any ideas or success stories are appreciated. -- SW From jasperhartline at adelphia.net Wed Nov 9 14:44:07 2005 From: jasperhartline at adelphia.net (Jasper Hartline) Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:44:07 -0600 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] X11 and desktop speedups? In-Reply-To: <43717550.5010701@verizon.net> References: <43717550.5010701@verizon.net> Message-ID: <43720B37.6090308@adelphia.net> Skunk Worx wrote: > I've noticed I have to append "smp" to the kernel version in > kadischi.py to get an smp kernel. Maybe there could be a command line > option for smp? Just an idea. > > You can also modify base/comps.xml and put in a smp kernel specifier. This is where I put all my packages, so that they could be selected or unselected instead of having to edit another file every time. Also, not sure, but to save space, you could chmod the UP kernel in your repository non readable, and have the smp kernel only, you might get away with a single SMP kernel install, each kernel is about 50MB to my knowledge. From veragoo at ihpc.a-star.edu.sg Thu Nov 10 09:01:46 2005 From: veragoo at ihpc.a-star.edu.sg (Kevin V) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:01:46 +0800 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] help with following fedoranews how to Message-ID: <1131613306.8251.8.camel@tecra07.ihpc> Hi all, I am attempting to create a FC4 live cd for the first time. I have followed the how to at http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Creating_a_Fedora_Core_4_LiveCD#remastering_the_iso - I however got confused at the step: tar cvzf livecd.tar.gz livecd.tar.gz Which i replace with: tar cvzf livecd.tar.gz livecd - Secondly I did a mkfs image/livelinuxcd.vhd, before doing the tune2fs steps, since I was getting an error with the latter complaining about not being a valid block device. Other than those two diversions, I did as on the how to! I now get an error when booting the cd that says, -> pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory init started: BusyBox v 0.60.2 ... Bummer, could not run '/etc/init.d/rcS': No such file or directory <- Could anyone help me out? Thanks Kevin From skunkworx at verizon.net Fri Nov 11 06:01:38 2005 From: skunkworx at verizon.net (Skunk Worx) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:01:38 -0800 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] help with following fedoranews how to In-Reply-To: <1131613306.8251.8.camel@tecra07.ihpc> References: <1131613306.8251.8.camel@tecra07.ihpc> Message-ID: <437433C2.9010100@verizon.net> AFAIK this list is for the kadischi project, which uses a patched anaconda to build the FC4 image. It's a different liveCD project. I've had pretty good luck with kadischi, but anything using stock FC4 (mkzftree based) will be slow unless you get lucky hacking it. There are ongoing efforts to get unionfs and squashfs integrated as kernel modules and that should drastically increase performance. Consider trying kadischi for your project : http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi Someone more experienced than I may be able to answer your other questions. -- SW From Frederic.Hornain at GB.BE Thu Nov 17 13:47:25 2005 From: Frederic.Hornain at GB.BE (Hornain Frederic) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:47:25 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Self-Introduction Message-ID: Dear *, Well, I am really insterested by this project however I am starting from scratch about Kadischi and in addition I am taking unfortunatly this project in course. So could a gentle person tell me how can I help ? You should find my Self-Introduction at the following URL : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FredericHornain If you have any remark, feel free to contact me. BR Fred -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tony at tgds.net Wed Nov 30 07:31:46 2005 From: tony at tgds.net (tony) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:31:46 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] custom kernel Message-ID: <1133335906.16684.22.camel@hush.localdomain> Hello, There haven't been many messages as of late and my last question went unanswered. I hope this one get a reply because it is a show stopper... I am trying to customise the kernel and rebuild the kernel rpm for my live CD. As it is destined to run on VIA Epia-M only I want all the VIA specific option enabled. I have followed the instructions here: http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/steps.html Does any one have another source for more recent instruction on kernel packaging? Cheers Tony -- Tony Grant www.tgds.net - vente d'ordinateurs mini-itx en ligne www.tgds.net/epiaix1.html - A fedora Core 4 based live CD for VIA Epia-M From gdk at redhat.com Wed Nov 30 14:51:36 2005 From: gdk at redhat.com (Greg DeKoenigsberg) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:51:36 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] custom kernel In-Reply-To: <1133335906.16684.22.camel@hush.localdomain> References: <1133335906.16684.22.camel@hush.localdomain> Message-ID: That looks like a decent source to me. Sorry for the quietness on this list lately. The lead on the project has stepped away, and we really haven't had anyone step up yet to take his place. We're in a bit of a quiet period right now, it seems. Some good news: it looks like we'll be getting a kernel with squashfs into the Fedora Core pipeline in the near future. --g _____________________ ____________________________________________ Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the ] [ dumb. --mcluhan On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, tony wrote: > Hello, > > There haven't been many messages as of late and my last question went > unanswered. I hope this one get a reply because it is a show stopper... > > I am trying to customise the kernel and rebuild the kernel rpm for my > live CD. As it is destined to run on VIA Epia-M only I want all the VIA > specific option enabled. I have followed the instructions here: > http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/steps.html > > Does any one have another source for more recent instruction on kernel > packaging? > > Cheers > > Tony > -- > Tony Grant > www.tgds.net - vente d'ordinateurs mini-itx en ligne > www.tgds.net/epiaix1.html - A fedora Core 4 based live CD for VIA Epia-M > > -- > Fedora-livecd-list mailing list > Fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list > From tony at tgds.net Wed Nov 30 15:58:03 2005 From: tony at tgds.net (tony) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:58:03 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] custom kernel In-Reply-To: References: <1133335906.16684.22.camel@hush.localdomain> Message-ID: <1133366283.16684.31.camel@hush.localdomain> Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 ? 09:51 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg a ?crit : > That looks like a decent source to me. Doesn't work like that with recent kernels... Or there is a step missed out. I have found another way and built one. Going to boot it and the next message will be posted from it or... > Sorry for the quietness on this list lately. The lead on the project has > stepped away, and we really haven't had anyone step up yet to take his > place. We're in a bit of a quiet period right now, it seems. Shame. Damned interesting project. I am slowly getting to where I want my LiveCD to be now that I have a kernel I can call my own. > Some good news: it looks like we'll be getting a kernel with squashfs into > the Fedora Core pipeline in the near future. Cool - we all need good news especially today. Tony -- Tony Grant www.tgds.net - vente d'ordinateurs mini-itx en ligne www.tgds.net/epiaix1.html - A fedora Core 4 based live CD for VIA Epia-M From tony at tgds.net Wed Nov 30 16:37:54 2005 From: tony at tgds.net (tony) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:37:54 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] custom kernel In-Reply-To: <1133366283.16684.31.camel@hush.localdomain> References: <1133335906.16684.22.camel@hush.localdomain> <1133366283.16684.31.camel@hush.localdomain> Message-ID: <1133368674.2945.9.camel@hush.localdomain> Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 ? 16:58 +0100, tony a ?crit : > Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 ? 09:51 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg a ?crit : > > That looks like a decent source to me. > > Doesn't work like that with recent kernels... Or there is a step missed > out. I have found another way and built one. Going to boot it and the > next message will be posted from it or... OK I have a new VIA Epia specific kernel for my liveCD! It worked. Tony -- Tony Grant www.tgds.net - vente d'ordinateurs mini-itx en ligne www.tgds.net/epiaix1.html - A fedora Core 4 based live CD for VIA Epia-M