a better way to make XO images

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 13:40:00 UTC 2009


>>>> 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?
>>
>> I get the following errors, it then seems to go through the montions
>> OK but I don't seem to get a image.
>>
>> [root at neo ~]# appliance-creator -n OLPC-rawhide --config
>> /home/perobinson/fedora/olpc/olpc-4.ks --cache=/home/images/cache
>> Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition
>> /dev/loop0p1 -- Invalid argument.  This means Linux won't know about
>> any changes you made to /dev/loop0p1 until you reboot -- so you
>> shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
>> Warning: The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on
>> /dev/loop0 (Invalid argument).  This means Linux won't know anything
>> about the modifications you made until you reboot.  You should reboot
>> your computer before doing anything with /dev/loop0.
>> ['/']
>> mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
>> Filesystem label=/
>> OS type: Linux
>>
>> Peter
>
> Could you send me your ks file?

I've tried it with this one that I created a while ago, and with
Chris's adding a diskon bit to it.

http://pbrobinson.fedorapeople.org/olpc/olpc-4.ks

Peter




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