Daily builds are no longer livecd images

[Jerry Vonau]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 20:49 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Mikus,
> 
>    > I did the zcat 20090525.bootable.gz > /dev/sdf1 (USB stick).
>    > That USB stick failed to boot on the XO.  The messages from OFW
>    > were "Error: Unknown file system Can't open disk label package"
>    
> I think that's because you should have used /dev/sdf, not /dev/sdf1.
> Using /dev/sdf1 fails to copy over the correct partition table to
> the start of the disk.
> 
>    > After the XO had completed rebooting (in the process, it reloaded
>    > its root filesystem from the USB stick), the changes I had
>    > previously made were NOT there.
> 
> You're right -- I think the persistence only applies to NAND images
> generated with livecd-iso-to-xo at the moment.  Does anyone have
> suggestions for how to go from a livecd ISO to an ext3 build that
> doesn't involve a squashfs/ext3 image, and just puts the files in
> place on the image directly?
> 

Isn't that what image-creator is used for? Martin is using that with a
script to mount a yum repo to create XS-on-OX ext3 images. Have a look
at:
http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/xs-livecd/tree/util/mkext3img


> livecd-iso-to-xo already knows how to mount the ISO and then call
> mkfs.jffs2 on the root dir, so we need to work out how to do a similar
> thing but using mkfs.ext3:  going from a root dir to a disk image file
> that contains a partition table/bootloader/directory tree in ext3.
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks,
> 
Jerry