Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Where to find extra files used for official releases?

[Michael Nygard]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:24 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 15:47 -0600, Michael Nygard wrote:
> > 1. Any attempt to mount partitions from the host results in a "/dev/hdax
> > busy or already mounted" error.  I have not solved this problem yet.
>
> I'm going to guess that you had a version of genkernel in use that had a
> busted evms implementation.  If you use a new snapshot and genkernel
> 3.1.0h along with catalyst 1.1.5, you'll be doing good.

Yes, I was using a 3.0.x (I think) genkernel.  Will upgrade post-haste.

>
> > 2. I seem to have lost auto-login.  The password scrambling worked well,
> > though.  So there went a bootable coaster... I could not log in as root.
>
> Try the newest catalyst.  It performs the steps that were in the x86
> fsscript.sh for 2004.3 automatically.

Great news.  I'm impressed at the rapid pace of progress on catalyst.
You guys are  maniacs!

>
> > I temporarily addressed the second problem by using an fsscript that
> > someone had posted in the forums.  It used "chpasswd" to force the root
> > password to a known value.
>
> This causes the LiveCD to start a bash shell on tty1 through tty6, which
> is called by init, so they automatically restart if you accidentally
> exit.  The root password is still scrambled this way, making the
> LiveCD's root password unpredictable.
>
> > This got me a bootable disc with which I could log in.
> >
> > Still, it raised a question for me.  Where can I find the fsscript,
> > overlay, root_overlay, etc. that are (or might be) used to make the
> > official releases?  I want to start with something idential to the
> > 2004.3 LiveCD (or 2005.0, depending on how long it takes me) as a
> > baseline.
>
> We used no root_overlay for 2004.3's release.  The overlay can be
> grabbed from any official LiveCD.  The contents would be what is on the
> LiveCD available outside booting it, or the stuff that is mounted
> into /mnt/cdrom on the LIveCD when booted.
>
> Using these and the kernel configurations and spec files from viewcvs
> gentoo module /src/releng/{kconfig,specs}/$relver/$arch from the
> www.gentoo.org site will give you an exact duplicate of the Gentoo
> 2004.3 LiveCD.

Aha!  That is exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you for the
information!  It looks like I'll have some reading to do.

Cheers,
-Mike Nygard


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