CentOS 7 support?
by Locane
Does anyone know if livecd-tools will support CentOS 7 at some point?
Are there alternative LiveCD making tools that might run more reliably for
creating a CentOS 7 LiveCD?
I'm currently using livecd-tools to build CentOS 6 images for a PXE server,
and it's been working ok, but I'm starting to get deprecation warnings and
need to move up.
Thanks in advance everyone.
8 years, 11 months
naive user problems
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
[Every once in a while I try Live USB creator. I always seem to confuse
myself and go back to dd. If I used it regularly, I'd probably be good at
it.]
I downloded Fedora 22, installed Live USB Creator, and tried to use it.
I found the file selector awkward. It didn't show me the contents of
directories until I insisted with some gesture I don't remember.
I had a choice of Non-destructive or Overwrite. I had nothing I wanted
to save on the stick, so I chose overwrite. And let it rip.
Fine, but there was no Persistent Storage that way (for a reason I can
guess at, after the fact).
So I did it again with "non-destructive". After an hour, it is still
stuck at 99% installing bootloader. My guess: there is no partition
structure of (FAT) filesystem after dd'ing a .iso to the stick. Surely a
diagnostic would be in order.
It would be good if there was a "make a suitable FAT filesystem" choice.
8 years, 11 months
Don't toss your FC21 Live CDs just yet
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
The new Live DVD is now a DVD, not a CD. (Thank
you guys!)
If you are using Live CD to do maintenance on older
computers, don't toss your FC21 Live CDs just yet.
First make sure the target computers will boot
off a DVD.
:-)
-T
I must have typo'ed "live" as "lice" about
three times. I hope I got them all corrected.
It is not quite as embarrassing as typo'ing
"Widows" for "Windows". :'[
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8 years, 11 months
boot issues follow up
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I have been using my "Dead Stick" (my wife's name for my direct
install stick) in almost every customer's machine that I get a
chance. So far, not a single computer has failed to boot.
Yipee! (I did have to change a line in grub.cfg to use my UUID.)
Wednesday it even booted perfectly in a Lenovo T510, which the
live USB refuses. (Used my dead stick to remove a GPT partition
on a G-Drive.)
Since I used the exact ISO on the Dead Stick as the Live USB
and the Live CD always boots, the problem I do believe is
isolated to the Live USB creation procedure.
And even though Red Hat "says" it will support EL 6 till
2020, they have stopped supporting things like this. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220107
So poop! (KVM is even a bigger pain in the neck with
the loss of support on EL6)
But, the dead stick boots faster than the live USB and
I still have 70% of my 16 GB left over. (I even have Libre
Office installed on it to show M$ customers that I can still
retrieve their documents off a corrupted hard drive.)
The stick is USB3, but so far I have only booted off USB2.
I take than back, my shop FC21 is USB3 and oh did it boot
like the wind.
Yesterday, I yum'ed the printer config utility into
the stick at a customer's site to print out a document
and I used the nt reg utility to reset another customer's
NT Admin password and get off a non-existent domain server.
And I check another customer's SMART drive status. (Hard
drive was fine: he had junkware.)
And I have been transferring things off and on my stick to
my base systems by mounting the sticks ext4 file system.
It is so stinkin' convenient!
This dead stick is so stinkin' useful I'd be here
all day carrying on about it.
Nobody got to see the bounding cows though. Rats.
Everyone has been very decent and gracious helping me along
to getting my Dead Stick working. Thank you, I sincerely
do appreciate it.
I took good notes, if anyone has a question.
-T
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8 years, 12 months
Direct install boot in one computer but not the other
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I am trying to install FC21 directly to flash drive.
So far, I can get the flash drive to boot into both my
computers if I use LVM file system. But, LVM is a pain
in the neck to copy files to and from. So, I switched
to normal partition.
Problem: now the thing will only boot into the computer
it was created on. The other one give me
ERROR: dracut-initqueue[303] ln failed to create
symbolic link /dev/resume already exists
(I find no such file)
/dev/sdc2 does not exist (which is my swap)
Starting Dracut emergency shell
I have no idea what is going wrong. Google is not
helping either
-T
9 years
Direct install?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I am always having something go wrong with Live USB. I occurs to me
that why don't I just directly install FC21 to a flash drive? Will this
work and will it be bootable? (I use the Live CD to do installs, so I
don't need that feature on a bootable stick.)
Many thanks,
-T
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9 years
USB 3 frustrations
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I made up a USB bootable Fedora Xfce flash drive. Seems
to work just as well as the Live USB. And, it get around the problem
with the small persistence and the worse problem of the persistence
not giving back space when files are deleted.
But I could get the bugger to boot in my Supermicro X8SAX based
computer. Turn out that the X8SAX's BIOS doesn't see flash drives
in my add on USB 3 controller:
$ lspci | grep -i usb
...
09:00.0 USB controller: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720202 USB 3.0 Host
Controller (rev 02)
I boots perfectly when I moving the drive to a USB 2 port.
-T
And, it does boot perfectly in my other Supermicro C7Z87
based computer with a native USB3 controller
9 years
3 GB barrier
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Is there a reason why there is a 3 GB barrier on persistence
with ext3?
Am I just banging my head trying to figure a way around it?
-T
9 years
livecd-tools naming convention?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I have been looking at the different SRPMs for livecd-tools.
It seems like the revision is also the same as the revision
of Fedora. For instance:
livecd-tools-19.10-1.fc19.src.rpm
livecd-tools-20.1-1.fc20.src.rpm
livecd-tools-21.5-1.fc21.src.rpm
So, how does one tell what actual version of the software you
are using?
Many thanks,
-T
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9 years
persistence still doesn't work
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Persistence still doesn't work.
I just opened up
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220015
I will quote it here:
Dear Red Hat,
I am coming from the community: Scientific Linux 6.6 x64. I am trying
to create a Live USB with persistence. Would one of our intrepid heroes
please fix this for me?
The Stick is 16 GB. It is formatted as ext3.
# rpm -qa livecd-tools
livecd-tools-13.4.5-1.el6.x86_64
According to this:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/10/html/Release_Notes/sn-Live...
livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 512 /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1
"Replace /dev/sdb1 with the partition where you want to put
the image. Replace 512 with the desired size in megabytes
of the persistent data, or overlay. The livecd-iso-to-disk
shell script is stored in the LiveOS directory at the top
level of the CD image. The USB media must have sufficient
free space for the Fedora Live image, plus the overlay,
plus any other data to be stored on the media."
This is my command line:
livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 13287
Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-21-5.iso /dev/sdc1
After booting off the Live USB, I get the following:
df -kPT /
Filesystem Type 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/mapper/live-rw ext4 3030800 2431496 551468 82% /
Means the persistence is set at the default of 3GB.
Many thanks,
-T
9 years