[Fedora-livecd-list] Building a LiveCD

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 05:24 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:56 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> For example, I'd like to use my own local repositories (I
> >> work with custom systems that aren't 100% in the public trees).
> >> How do I modify the kickstart file to handle this?
> > 
> > Repositories to use are defined by the 'repo' lines.  You can use
> > something like
> >   repo --name=foo --baseurl=http://some.web.site.com/path/to/my/repo
> >   repo --name=bar --baseurl=file:///path/to/a/local/one
> >   repo --name=baz --mirrorlist=http://some.site.com/path/to/mirrorlist
> > 
> > Baseurl and mirrorlist are used exactly as they are with yum.
> 
> This helped and I was able to build an image.  Sadly, it failed
> with the oft-reported problem of not finding the CDROM root device
> (no CDROM driver in image?)  I need to investigate this some.

Some macs are apparently still using old IDE; I added ide-cd to the list
of modules being pulled in earlier to account for this

> >> Also, I'm interested in building a LiveCD for PowerPC (that's
> >> my target base).  I assume that I need to do this from a PPC
> >> host?  Is there any other magic required?
> > 
> > Correct.  Also, the ppc support may have bugs and only boot on a small
> > subset of ppc platforms.  It's had very little in the way of testing.  I
> > pushed a few little fixes for it today.
> 
> Thanks for the info.  Forgive an outsider's question, but how can I
> access these changes (read only GIT pull would be fine)?

You can get an anonymous clone of current git via
  git clone git://git.fedoraproject.org/hosted/livecd 

Jeremy