[Fedora-livecd-list] live DVD

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 11:44 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 15:23 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > I've got just a short question: Is creating of a live dvd possible with
> > the current version of livecd-creator (001-3)?
> > 
> > A few minutes ago I've tried to create one. The size of the packages to
> > be downloaded was 1.0 Gb. Then yum fails with an transaction error.
> > There should not be enough free space on the filesystem.
> 
> The big thing right now stopping it is the hard-coded 3 gig os.img.
> Making it possible to specify that should be pretty straight-forward --
> if someone wanted to take a crack at the patch, it would be good.  My
> personal preference would be to specify something like "part / --size
> 5000" or whatever in the kickstart config and if that's not specified,
> we can fallback to something sensible much like we do now.
> 
> If no one gets to it first, I will eventually.

It's a sparse file backing the file system so just make it 100GB (or
2-32TB since ext3 supports that nowadays) and then resize2fs it down
before completion so it's approx 2-4GB larger than the payload in the
file. No need to add an option for this.

      David