[Fedora-livecd-list] Some braindumping

[tony]

Le jeudi 19 janvier 2006 à 12:15 -0500, Jeremy Katz a écrit :
> I spent a little bit of time a few months ago looking at Kadischi and
> sent Darko a bit of feedback (also based on some mail from him on what
> he saw the next steps as being).  So, I figure it's time that I take
> that information and dump it for the wider audience now.

> * The initrds currently being generated by Kadischi are from a one off
> script rather than utilizing mkinitrd.  This means that you have to
> generate the initrd by hand afterwards instead of having the kernel post
> script do it for you.  It also means that changes have to be tracked in
> the Kadischi version of the script.  With the mkinitrd currently in
> rawhide, there is the ability to override commands from nash.  Also,
> with the support for handling multiple initramfs's, a secondary
> initramfs can be created that just has the overriden commands.  For
> ensuring that modules get included in the initrd, there is some support
> for overriding things that are detected via /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd --
> we probably want to make it so that anaconda ensures
> that /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd is generated correctly so the first time an
> initrd is created, it's "right"

Now I understand... Jeez all those hours wasted looking at this from all
angles...

Jeremy you got anything else you must tell us? =:-D

The language stuff I just nuke in my comps.xml, my live CD must be
French and English period.

What about ssh keygen? How does one get around that? I am thinking along
the lines of someone wanting to ssh from work into a VDR based PVR, his
mom has to reboot the computer and it takes ages to generate keys...

Tony
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