On Monday 29 November 2004 18:49, Arangel Angov wrote:
Dirk Westfal wrote:
...
I'm very interested in this. I wanted to make a fedora 2 live cd
for a
few months now. The problem is, there is no proper documentation and all
the scripts for making live cd's are buggy or not working. How did you
do it? Any good documentation?
Well... 'good docu' for the livecd build-process ... that`s a very critical
point yet :)
I`m trying to create a set of scripts to facilitate the process, but it`s
still not very easy to get it right and 'end-user' doable.
It starts with package dependencies (it`s quite easy to end up with a 2,8 GB
install) and ends with mostly small things (some software that needs write
permission in /usr, missing symlinks, changes in system scripts etc.), that
can easely prevent a livecd -system from working.
I`ve automated most of the stuff using a shellscript that guides throught the
build-process in ~11 steps, and eleminated a lot of pitfalls by putting the
livecd-specific adjustments into rpm packages (the 'livecd- rpms' - included
in the 1.40 cd in /rpms folder).
All tools i use are currently included in a 'livecd-devel.tar.gz' in the
barebone image - they are working - at least for me - but there are still a
lot of loose ends, and it is not 'bullet-proof' enough to turn it loose as
single package.
My current approach for end-users is to provide a 'basic' image (the
'barebone') as working example that includes just yum and a few other tools
that can be 'remastered' into full working system or used as a 'base' for
own
systems.
(document:
http://www.linux4all.de/livecd/barebone/customization-1.1.htm )
I would appreciate some more info on this.
perhaps via PM ?
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Arangel
Thanks a lot!
Best Regards,
Dirk Westfal