Tom Lisjac wrote:
On 6/13/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chip Turner wrote:
>
>
>True enough. One of my goals, though, is to have something that the
>Fedora Marketing project can burn and ship all over the world -- a
>complete "this is Fedora, baby, one DVD, put it in and watch 'er rip."
>
>
This would involve a tedious but straightforward mastering process
that could probably be done in a few days by an individual using
existing tools. Unfortunately I don't see the utility of the DVD
format when so many systems aren't equipped with them. Compression
can pack a standard CD with most of the killer apps that Linux has to
offer... and if the plan is to ship these around the world, they're
going to encounter a lot of older hardware that won't know what a DVD
is.
>>What would be cooler is if you could create them on the fly from a
>>given package set; basically take a kickstart... but, if someone
>>downloads the original DVDs or
>>CDs, they should be able to just make their own.
>>
>>
This is the project I'm interested in working on. A graphical tool to
do this doesn't exist yet.
>The question now is, "how do we get our hands dirty"?
>
>
Focusing on a specific goal would be a good start.
Media size and type are just parameters. A challenge worthy of this
list would be creating a tool that makes package selection,
customization and image building easy. For me, the basic requirement
is gui based system that will create a variety of selectable OS image
types from a pile of binary RPMs. In this context, business card
CD's, UML images, DVD's, USB stick bootables, hd installs, etc are
just radio buttons on a tabbed panel. Roger Binn's UMLBuilder with
individual package and media type selection is pretty close:
http://umlbuilder.sourceforge.net/
So at this point, we have two different projects on the table. One is
to build a FedoraMax DVD... the other is to build a "builder". Picking
the one that the people on this list are interested in would probably
be the best way to get started.
-Tom
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Hi,
Here is what I am going to do with the next version of ADIOS live CD so
why not Fedora "builder" CD. I am including squashfs and unionfs as
part of the kernel.
So my suggestion is that standard Fedora kernel have these modules or
similar, then it is easy to create a "builder" CD on the fly, just
create a "root_fs" filesystem on a spare partition or directly into a
2GByte loopback filesystem. This root_fs filesystem is then placed
within a squashfs filesystem. This only requires the startup process
using say isolinux+busybox+vmlinuz+initrd.gz (or whatever) to mount the
squashfs, create a ram drive for read-write, then mount the loopback
using unionfs, a few extra "if" statements in rc.sysinit (or rc.bootcd)
and then the live CD works.
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