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On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 10:43 +0200, Georg Lippold wrote: |
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> Hi Eliot, |
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> |
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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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Right. Any init script that you dump into the initramfs image will |
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*only* be in the initramfs image and not on the live filesystem. You |
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need to modify the squashfs image to get it into the filesystem. |
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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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> > |
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> >>Hi Eliot, |
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> >> |
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> >>just use |
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> >> |
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> >>livecd/root_overlay: /path |
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> >> |
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> >>in your livecd-stage2.spec |
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> >> |
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> >>In /path, there is this structure |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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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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> >> |
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> >>Greetings, |
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> >> |
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> >>Georg |
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> >> |
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> >>Eliot Gable wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >>>I am new to the whole "live cd" thing, so please bear with me here. |
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> >>> |
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> >>>I am trying to add a file to the /etc/init.d/ directory that exists |
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> >> |
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> >>*after* |
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> >> |
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> >>>the entire Gentoo live cd boots up. I have figured out that the |
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> >> |
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> >>/etc/init.d |
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> >> |
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> >>>directory in the ISO image on the CD is a base environment of some |
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> >> |
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> >>sorts, |
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> >> |
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> >>>and that the gentoo.igz file in the isolinux directory on the CD |
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> >> |
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> >>contains |
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> >> |
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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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> >>> |
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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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> >>> |
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> >>>The thing is, the resultant CD will boot just fine. However, the file |
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> >> |
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> >>does |
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> >> |
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> >>>not show up in the /etc/init.d/ directory after the CD finishes booting |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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