Re: [gentoo-dev] Completed livecd-stage2 build

[Brad House]

Most likely the previous livecd was compressed, and the one
you have there is not compressed.  You need to find out what
compression method works for you, it supports 3 different
ones (which you can specify in the cdfs part of your spec
files).

squashfs which requires a kernel patch from squashfs.sf.net
gcloop which requires a kernel patch from
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero/gcloop
and
zisofs which should be supported natively in your kernel as long as
  you enable Transparent decompression under your ISO9660 filesystem support
  in your kernel.  It will also require that you pass -z to mkisofs.

All these require userland tools as well to create the images, in your
host system.  squashfs-tools, gcloop, and zisofs-tools respectively.

-Brad

> I finally got the build to work.
>
> After applying the fix I mentioned in my last message, I discovered that
> catalyst emerges genkernel every time stage2 is run into its chrooted
> environment. This meant that, to get it to work, I had to start the
> livecd-stage2 build, wait till it had emerged genkernel, then copy the
> fixed
> busybox tarball into the build directory before genkernel started to build
> it. This is a major kludge, but fortunately is only necessary until
> genkernel includes a fix for the busybox build problem.
>
> I'm copying the .iso to my workstation, and will try it once that's done
> and
> I can burn a CD.
>
> One other thing I've noticed: The .iso is 119 MB. This seems comparatively
> large, as the 1.4-test1 Alpha LiveCD is 39 MB. I probably need to tell it
> to
> remove more stuff. Suggestions are welcome.
>
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