a better way to make XO images

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 13:20:33 UTC 2009


Hi,

> I propose that we use the Fedora virtualization infrastructure to create
> Rawhide OS images for the XO.
>
> It should be simple using a kickstart file and the virtualization tools
> to create an OS installed on a loopback mounted file that contains a
> normal ext3 file system.
>
> Then, we just mount that file, and use it as the source for the rest of
> CJB's livecd-iso-to-xo.sh.
>
> No live CD cruft at all. No squashfs. Much much cleaner.
>
> I'm going to give it a try once I come up with a machine that has enough
> memory/diskspace for this operation...

I've been trying to use the Fedora appliance-tools to do exactly that
but it seems to have some issues on F-10 at the moment.

Peter




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