[Fedora-livecd-list] Kadischi - USB fork?

[Jasper O'neal Hartline]

It wouldn't be terribly difficult. In fact the major difference is simply in
the initramfs rc, and using mkisofs. Instead of invoking mkisofs, you 
would just need
a filesystem in RAM, of course large enough to accommodate the current 
squashed tree
move the squashed rootfs and /boot/ folder into the RAM filesystem, then 
make the image.

This sounds like it could cost alot of RAM, however not much if you 
think about the size of
USB flash sticks today. 512MB, 1GB. So on. In any case the compression 
ratio for SquashFS
is so efficient that 512MB finalized rootfs squashed is about 1.3GB in 
unsquashed packages and files.
That is fairly large for just a pocket Fedora Linux.

I'll work on a little fork of Kadischi on my own time and perhaps will 
send some links
to where to get it, maybe it could be included in Kadischi proper!
I've already built some LiveUSB images myself, and just thought I'd 
share the idea with the list.
LiveUSB Fedora is really what you think it is, it ROCKS!

J. Hartline

I'd like to hear more thoughts on this.
Filip Tsachev wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 05/09/06, Jasper O'neal Hartline <jasperhartline at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm curious if anyone would be interested in seeing a forked Kadischi
>> used to build LiveUSB
>> Fedora Core images that can be written to a flash USB device or even a
>> USB external disk..
>>
>> Is this something that we would be interested in?
>
> Sure thing. I would love to have 'pocket' fedora around.