[Fedora-livecd-list] kadischi+kickstart is broken how exactly?

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 3/14/06, Jane Dogalt <jdogalt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,

Hello

>    A few years ago I worked on generating livecds using mandrake as a base.
> I'd
> like to start using fedora as a base and it looks like kadischi is the place to
> start.

Good Idea :)

Things here look rough around the edges, so I'm hoping you can
> help answer at least this first major question of mine.  (and I'll throw in my
> first reactions to the system)

> I just ran my first experiment with kadischi using kickstart on FC5T3, and to
> my surprise given the status listed on the development wiki, it worked.

Normally the mininal kickstart file included in the CVS will work. Ive
not yet had problems with it. Nevertheless, it is not documented that
the root password is "livecd" :)

> It might not have worked exactly like I wanted it to, but given that this is
> only my 2nd trivial (successful) kadischi experiment, I was not unsatisfied.
> I.e. it produced an iso, which booted my system.

Reboot your system?
Can you post your kickstart please?

I had mails before from certain Kadischi Users having problems with
kickstart, can you too post your kickstart files? Maybe we can figure
out what is failing.

> Mind you I saw some non-fatal bad sector errors, but given that a subsequent
> "find / -print" didn't choke, I think it 'worked'.  I sort of expected gdm and
> X to be installed, and for it not to be half the size (450M vs 850M) of my
> first trivial non-kickstart experiment, but again, it did in fact 'work'.
>
> Pretty much everything I would want to do with kadischi involves using
> kickstart, so please elaborate on the development page as to how it's broken if
> in fact it still is.

I myself didn't spend much time with kickstart. But true some doc
about kickstart should be available on the wiki. At least, some
examples of working kickstart files.

If anyone who has a working kickstart files, please post it here so
that anyone can benefit from it.

> Otherwise-
>
> - my first fc4 experiment died in anaconda, but I couldn't care less(fc5 is
> practically here already)
>
> - to get fc5t3 to work, I followed the docs, but had to manually apply most of
> one of the 2 patches, because parts of it were already in cvs.  Maybe telling
> patch to blast ahead and ignoring rejects would have worked, but that certainly
> doesn't feel comfortable.
>
> - I also had to install autoconf/automake which aren't part of a braindead
> default fc5t3 install, and thus should be in docs in the yum install line.

ok Ill add that.

> - I just noticed that nice rpm spec file posted, and see all those interesting
> gettext and other commands in the build section which should probably be noted
> in the docs (I'm guessing they might suppress some of the scarier warnings
> which didn't seem to prevent me from getting a bootable iso)
>

Jasper, you are the one working with spec. Can you add relevant
contents about it to the wiki? Kadischi/Development?

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