a better way to make XO images
Bryan Kearney
bkearney at redhat.com
Wed Mar 11 13:27:08 UTC 2009
Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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.
What issues have you been having?
-- bk
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