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

[Lars Bjørndal]

Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> writes:

> 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? 

That's right.

> 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.

The command 'git branch' gives me only * master. So how do I grab the
F-8 branch of Revisor?

Lars