Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst Newbie

[Thomas Drueke]

Hi Nico,

sounds reasonable.

So I'll need to dig a bit more deeper whats going wrong during my
stage1. :-(

Thanks for clarification.

BR
Thomas

P.S.: Your answer is clear, no worry about that :-)


Am Sonntag, den 20.03.2005, 12:58 +0000 schrieb martin nicolas:
> 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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