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Hi Eliot, |
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there are serveral Knoppix remaster (google:"knoppix remaster") Howto's |
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out there, you may have a look at them, but I cannot guarantee for it. |
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One difference: LiveCD's usually use squashfs while Knoppix uses cloop. |
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Greetings, |
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Georg |
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Eliot Gable wrote: |
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> Well, I assume you are talking about the catalyst build? I am trying to stay |
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> away from the catalyst utilities. I do not want to build a whole new livecd |
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> image. I just want to use the x86 minimal livecd image I downloaded. I do |
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> not see any livecd-stage2.spec file on that CD. I am not at all familiar |
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> with catalyst and I was not planning on spending the time learning it. I |
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> thought this would be a relatively simple task -- just unpacking the files |
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> on the CD, adding a couple in, and repackaging them. Can I not do it this |
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> way? |
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> |
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> On 9/27/05, Georg Lippold <georg.lippold@×××.de> wrote: |
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>>Hi Eliot, |
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>>just use |
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>>livecd/root_overlay: /path |
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>>in your livecd-stage2.spec |
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>>In /path, there is this structure |
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>>>find . -print |
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>>> |
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>>>./etc |
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>>>./etc/init.d |
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>>>./etc/init.d/somescript |
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>> |
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>>The whole gentoo.igz is just the kernel ramdisk, that is discarded after |
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>>the filesystem from the CD is mounted. Your other modified files can go |
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>>into that directory, too. They are copied over stage2 before it gets |
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>>compressed. |
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>>Greetings, |
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>>Georg |
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>>Eliot Gable wrote: |
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>>>I am new to the whole "live cd" thing, so please bear with me here. |
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>>>I am trying to add a file to the /etc/init.d/ directory that exists |
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>>*after* |
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>>>the entire Gentoo live cd boots up. I have figured out that the |
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>>/etc/init.d |
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>>>directory in the ISO image on the CD is a base environment of some |
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>>sorts, |
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>>>and that the gentoo.igz file in the isolinux directory on the CD |
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>>contains |
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>>>the real set of files that exist in the /etc/init.d directory once the |
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>>>entire CD finishes booting. I have created a folder to hold my overlay |
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>>>files. This folder looks like so: |
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>>> |
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>>>Now, I try to create an overlay like so: |
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>>> |
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>>>find . -print | cpio --quiet -o -H newc | gzip -9 > ../gentoo.igz.new |
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>>>cd .. |
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>>>cat gentoo.igz.old gentoo.igz.new > gentoo.igz |
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>>>cp gentoo.igz newcd/isolinux/ |
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>>>cd newcd |
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>>>mkisofs -o ../gentoo.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat |
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>>>-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -iso-level 2 -boot-info-table . |
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>>>cdrecord -blank=fast dev=/dev/hdc ../gentoo.iso |
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>>>The thing is, the resultant CD will boot just fine. However, the file |
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>>does |
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>>>not show up in the /etc/init.d/ directory after the CD finishes booting |
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