Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst Newbie

[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
>
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