[Fedora-livecd-list] Revisor creates a very large iso image

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> writes:
> 
>> Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>>> Hello, list!
>>> WHile trying to generate a livecd with the git version of revisor
>>> from
>>> thursday 17.th (or wed 16.th, not sure), I get an iso file of about
>>> 3GB, although I expect it to be about 500MB. I'm not sure what debug
>>> info you need to tell me why it is so large, so I just want to ask if
>>> there is some known issues regarding theis problem. If not, I will
>>> come back with more info, e.g. output from the building process etc.
>>>
>> This has been a known issue in certain cases where both the
>> squashfs.img and the ext3.img end up on the ISO image. Please use the
>> latest from GIT and tell us if it's solved now.
> 
> Yes it is. However, I'm not able to boot the livecd:
> 
> Reading from bottom and upwards:
> 
> swithroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> Setuproot: error mounting /sys: no such file or directory
> setuproot: mounting /proc no succh file or directory
> setuproot: moving /dev failed no such file or directory
> mount: missing mount point
> mkrootdev: expected fs options
> 

My guess is you're trying to create a Fedora 8 LiveCD? I've seen this 
before, the init script in initrd0.img is missing some file labels and 
mount points. I've not been able to fix it in F8, but I do know it 
composes rawhide quite well. For composing Fedora 8 (or on Fedora 8) 
though, you might want to try the F-8 branch of Revisor, which will have 
less features (2.0.5) then the master or F-9 branch, or livecd-tools.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip