Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst Newbie

[Jeff Davidson]

You may all be interested in this:

http://livecd.confucius.ca/viewcvs/hardened-livecd/

These are the specs used for an experimental gentoo hardened X liveCD, 
and perhaps you may like it as reference for your own graphical liveCDs.

-Monkey

Jared Greenwald wrote:

>I'd like them...
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>On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:58:04 +0000, martin nicolas
><nicko.martin@×××××.com> wrote:
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>>Hi catalyst user,
>>
>>I think you're wrong when you think that the livecd-stages corresponds
>>to the stages of the installation, I've succed in making an ISO work,
>>in fact I think (but I could be wrong) that in the stage 1 the system
>>install all the softwares you want in the CD and in the stage 2 it
>>make the file system, build the kernel and other thinks like this (I
>>think at the fsscript for make some cool stuf in the final
>>environement).
>>
>>If you want my spec files, tell me and I'll mail it to you.
>>
>>PS : Sorry for my english level, I hope that it would be clear, if not
>>tell me and I would try to make it more clear.
>>
>>Nico
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:30:24 +0100, Thomas Drueke <t.drueke@×××.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I'm new to catalyst, so please forgive me if these are FAQ's.
>>>
>>>I browsed through the net for some documentation and found the usual
>>>places (Wiki, Docs). But I'm still a little bit confused if I can build
>>>a liveCD with X, Fvwm and some apps stuff on it. I read some success
>>>stories, but I didn't get it right how to do this.
>>>
>>>I follow the steps describe in the Wiki and got an image but I'm not
>>>confident that everythings works as expected. Before wasting a CD I want
>>>to make sure that I understood correctly how things should be done with
>>>catalyst.
>>>
>>>So here are my questions:
>>>
>>>1. The Stage 1 and Stage 2 spec-files in the wiki, do they correspond to
>>>the normal Gentoo Stages 1 & 2 installation steps ? I would expect: yes.
>>>
>>>2. How do I get all the apps into the CD image ? I tried to make a
>>>spec-file for stage 3 but it fails to complete with
>>>
>>>        !!! catalyst: Target "livecd-stage3" not available.
>>>
>>>The head of my stage3-spec-file looks like this:
>>>
>>>## Template for Gentoo Linux release bootable LiveCDs
>>>## John Davis <zhen@g.o>
>>>
>>>subarch: x86
>>>version_stamp: 2004.3
>>>target: livecd-stage3
>>>rel_type: default
>>>profile: default-linux/x86/2004.3
>>>snapshot: 2004.3
>>>source_subpath: default/livecd-stage2-x86-2004.3
>>>livecd/cdfstype: zisofs
>>>livecd/archscript: /usr/lib/catalyst/livecd/runscript/x86-archscript.sh
>>>livecd/runscript: /usr/lib/catalyst/livecd/runscript/default-runscript.sh
>>>livecd/cdtar: /usr/lib/catalyst/livecd/cdtar/isolinux-2.13-cdtar.tar.bz2
>>>#livecd/cdtar: /usr/lib/catalyst/livecd/cdtar/isolinux-2.13-memtest86+-cdtar.tar.bz2
>>>livecd/iso: /tmp/gentoo.iso
>>>
>>>I wonder if this is the right thing to do as I didn't found any
>>>documentation stating that I should go for something like this. Should I
>>>put all packages, that I want on the CD, in the "stage 1" spec-file ?
>>>
>>>Hope this isn't too basic. :-)
>>>
>>>BR
>>>Thomas
>>>
>>>--
>>>Thomas Drueke <t.drueke@×××.de>
>>>
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