[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: failing at my first attempt at liveCD creation

[Tim Wood]

You can also use package caching.  I believe you add 
--cache=/path/to/cache to the livecd-creator command.  You can check the 
mail archive for the directions.

Tim


Fulko Hew wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fulko.hew at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I'm failing at my first attempt at creating (or recreating) a live CD
> >
> > - I'm using Fedora 8 (because I don't find KDE in F9 usable yet)
> > - I have SELinux disabled.
> >
> > Following the process described in the LiveCDHowTo, well, actually
> > the step:
> >
> > livecd-creator --config=/usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-minimal.ks
>
>
> ... snip ...
>
> Following up on my own email... I am making progress, but not because
> I changed anything... I now have success in creating a live CD, just by
> running _exactly_ the same thing again.  Now its basically working
> (without changing a thing... Yeah, I have a hard time believing that 
> myself.)
>
> Now that I can basically create a bootable media... I want to 
> customize it.
> But if I use the standard approach of always downloading the RPMs
> across the net, it takes a long time, so therefore I'd like to have a 
> local
> repository to suck from.  I haven't been able to find a 'good/working'
> set if instructions to follow that a) creates a local repo, and b) changes
> required to the kickstart file so it _successfully_ uses that local repo.
>
> Surely there must be a definitive set of instructions/docs for this
> _whole_ downloading/setup/building/customizing a liveCD process?
> (I haven't found any 'complete' instructions yet.)  Pointers anyone?
>
> TIA
> Fulko
>
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