[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Proposed patches for livecd/EL-5 branch

[Larry Brigman]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com> wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>> Alan Pevec wrote:
>>>
>>> yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
>>
>> OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL system
>> and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The connection is
>> decent but not enough to start downloading new complete images easily so
>> can't really test this at the moment but you can go ahead and commit those
>> changes if you (or others) have tested that the following works correctly:
>>
>> * Create a live cd image
>> * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable live
>> USB
>> * image-creator creates a ext3 image
>
>
> I executed the first 2 using the attached kickstart file. I got a few
> warnings at boot up, but the images do work. Note.. the second one I did
> running the livecd-iso-to-disk from an F9 machine.
>

I tried this on my Centos5.2 box.  I have some issues with the build.
I have NIS authentication enabled on my box and when I build
it somehow disables the authentication to the point that my desktop environment
is non-functional.

The image, using a kickstart that does not have anything in post only
has the boot to
local disk in the menu.

Second pass I used the kickstart from below except I used my local RHEL5 x86_64
repo.  This fails to complete the boot process.

Am I to expect this to function correctly on RHEL5 and similar platform?

> xconfig --startxonboot
> timezone  America/New_York
> selinux --disable
> # Add an rhx repo and an updates repo
> repo --name=epel
> --baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5Server/i386/
> repo --name=rhelWS
> --baseurl=http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Client/U2/i386/os/Workstation/
> repo --name=rhelclient
> --baseurl=http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Client/U2/i386/os/Client/
> repo --name=rhelt
> --baseurl=http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Client/U2/i386/os/VT/
>
> %packages
> @gnome-desktop
> @base-x
> @base
> @core
> @admin-tools
> @dial-up
> @hardware-support
> @printing
> -selinux-*
> -gphoto2
> -kpartx
> -firstboot
> -firstboot-tui
> -system-config-lvm
> -rhn-*
> -vnc-server
> -nautilus-cd-burner
> -yum-rhn-plugin
> -festival-*
>
> %post
> # Make a pretty login page
> cp /opt/liveDVD/background.jpg
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/syslinux-vesa-splash.jpg
>
> # In the live cd, this is done in the init.d file
> # FIXME: it'd be better to get this installed from a package
> cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live << EOF
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # live: Init script for live image
> #
> # chkconfig: 345 00 99
> # description: Init script for live image.
>
> . /etc/init.d/functions
>
> if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveimg || [ "\$1" != "start" ] || [ -e
> /.liveimg-configured ] ; then
>    exit 0
> fi
>
> exists() {
>    which \$1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return
>    \$*
> }
>
> touch /.liveimg-configured
>
> # mount live image
> if [ -b /dev/live ]; then
>   mkdir -p /mnt/live
>   mount -o ro /dev/live /mnt/live
> fi
>
> # configure X
> exists system-config-display --noui --reconfig --set-depth=24
>
> # unmute sound card
> exists alsaunmute 0 2> /dev/null
>
> # add notes user with no passwd
> useradd -c "Live Demo" liveuser
> passwd -d liveuser > /dev/null
> # Give notes ownership of the liveuser home dir
> chown -R liveuser /home/liveuser
> # disable screensaver locking
> gconftool-2 --direct
> --config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t bool
> /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled false >/dev/null
> # set up timed auto-login for after 60 seconds
> sed -i -e
> 's/\[daemon\]/[daemon]\nAutomaticLoginEnable=true\nAutomaticLogin=liveuser\n/'
> /etc/gdm/custom.conf
> if [ -e /usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/fedora-logo-icon.png ] ; then
>    cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/fedora-logo-icon.png
> /home/fedora/.face
>    chown fedora:fedora /home/fedora/.face
>    # TODO: would be nice to get e-d-s to pick this one up too... but how?
> fi
> # turn off firstboot for livecd boots
> echo "RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO" > /etc/sysconfig/firstboot
>
> # don't start yum-updatesd for livecd boots
> chkconfig --level 345 yum-updatesd off
>
> # don't start cron/at as they tend to spawn things which are
> # disk intensive that are painful on a live image
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 crond off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 atd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 anacron off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 readahead_early off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 readahead_later off
>
> # Stopgap fix for RH #217966; should be fixed in HAL instead
> touch /media/.hal-mtab
> EOF
>
> chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live
> /sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live
> /sbin/chkconfig --add fedora-live
>
> # Add a little but more space
> rm -rf /boot/initrd*
>
>
>
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