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drio
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 Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject: autodetection? |
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Hi guys,
I would like to know how did you solve the autodetection. I have been looking the gentoo livecd linuxrc and init scripts
and apparently in linuxrc they do some basic autodetection for critical hardware and after that they launch an initscript
call autoconfig which is the one that do the magic.
Do you know what package I have to emerge in order to have that initscript?
Have you add autodetection features to your personal livecds? What did you do?
The other solution is to compile more device drivers in the kernel instead of compiling them as a modules but that
is a very dirty approach.
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tkole
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject: nessus on livecd |
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I'm trying to put nessus on my livecd but i've encountered a number of problems:
1. By default 'nessus-mkcert' is needed to create SSL certs and set up
nessusd.conf and nessusd.rules. 'nessus-mkcert' writes the CA certs to
/usr/com/nessus... which is part of the livecd's READ-ONLY filesystem.
I can fix this either by editing the 'nessus-mkcert' to write to a
writable filesystem such as /etc, or I could use a livecd/root_overlay
and have standard CA certs and conf files copied over to /etc/nessus
when making livecd-stage2. How exactly did you get around this
problem?
2. When starting nessus with '/etc/init.d/nessus start' a whole list
of errors flood the screen as it trys to load the plugins. I'm
guessing this is because its trying to write to a read-only filesystem
again. Has anyone managed to make a work around for this?
Any fsscript or overlay or extra config files are welcome! |
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gctaylor
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:16 am Post subject: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init |
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Hi,
I've been unable to get this LiveCD to boot after working on it for a couple of weeks now. Here's as far as I get:
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RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 8192KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warming mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
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I've read a couple of comments in this thread about others having similar problems but it wasn't clear to me how it was resolved.
What's the next thing that it should be trying?
Some relevant file attributes that I hope are useful:
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# ls -l /boot/initrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8388608 Apr 19 20:14 /boot/initrd
speedy12 grub # ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200 Apr 19 20:13 grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200 Apr 20 19:07 menu.lst
# mount -o loop /boot/initrd /mnt/initrd
# cd /mnt/initrd/
initrd # ls -l
total 21
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 20 17:54 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 19 20:14 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 20 17:54 dev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 19 20:15 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 20 17:54 lib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1105 Apr 22 16:51 linuxrc
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Apr 19 20:14 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 19 20:14 new
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 19 20:14 proc
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Wolven
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:03 am Post subject: Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing |
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| gctaylor wrote: | Hi,
I've been unable to get this LiveCD to boot after working on it for a couple of weeks now. Here's as far as I get:
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RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 8192KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warming mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
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I think you are missing some files in the /mnt/initrd/lib dir.
Be very careful to include all the files that
gives you.
I found this step very confusing, but you need to do this for ALL of the files you copy from /etc/bin. And not just for /bin/mount as the example shows.
HTH |
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ang
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing |
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| gctaylor wrote: |
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Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
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You need /lib/ld-linux*in /mnt/initrd/lib
try to chroot into the initrd of your livecd to check you got all libs |
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gctaylor
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found [SOLVED] |
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I was missing a file in /mnt/initrd/lib. @#$%!
Thank-you ang and Wolven for pointing this out!
Once I got past that I was getting an error about not finding /dev/hdX devices. I took off the option in the kernel .config to automatically mount dev file system at boot and that fixed it. I saw someone in an earlier post suggested enabling that option. Hopefully this tidbit will help someone else in the future. |
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Kampi
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| drio wrote: |
Perhaps this is very dirty bad this is what I did to fix that:
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RDSIZE=`du -m /proc/kcore | awk '{ print $1 / 4 }'`
RDSIZE=`echo $RDSIZE | awk -F. '{print $1}'`
RDSIZE=$[$RDSIZE + 1]
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as dirty as yours, but without 'echo' and the 'M' at the end. (maybe the 'M' is not needed...)
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RDSIZE=`du -m /proc/kcore | awk '{ print $1 / 4 }' | awk -F. '{print $1}'`
RDSIZE=$[RDSIZE + 1]M
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deckernico
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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Hey guys, i've been building a livecd for a while now, but i got a question, how can you make it eject after your reboot? I'm trying to make a automated install live-cd for my computers, but i can't get it to autoeject during reboot.
I've tried doing it manually,
umount -l /newroot/cdrom
eject /dev/cdrom
but then it doesn't shutdown cleanly
Then i mirrored all the /bin and /sbin directories onto tmpfs' so i can unmount it all, but that also fails. There's gotta be a easier way.
Thanks!
Any hints/tips/tricks? |
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Farkenell
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Has anyone here successfuly got mysql running on the livedisc?
I'm not sure how to go about setting up a initial user when I can't connect to the myqsl server in a chrooted environment.....although the disc has rw properties on the /var directory, it complains about unable to connect on /var/run/mysqld/something.socket
Hrmm I was thinking maybe copying an existing database but am not sure what files I'll need to copy over.....I'll try some more stuff when I get back home..... |
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deckernico
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Farkenell wrote: | Has anyone here successfuly got mysql running on the livedisc?
I'm not sure how to go about setting up a initial user when I can't connect to the myqsl server in a chrooted environment.....although the disc has rw properties on the /var directory, it complains about unable to connect on /var/run/mysqld/something.socket
Hrmm I was thinking maybe copying an existing database but am not sure what files I'll need to copy over.....I'll try some more stuff when I get back home..... |
You sure the mysql daemon is running? It sounds like the client can't connect to the backend.
Try running mysqld not as a daemon to see if it can bind to the socket, and don't forget to check the logs in /var/log/ to make sure there's no errors. |
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Farkenell
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Yeah I'm having trouble getting it started, in the chrooted environment and when the livedisc boots....
atm I'm trying to get some other issues going with my current build.....:/ (stupid thing won't prompt login, I think its cause I was missing the livecd flag halfway through, was hoping I'd get away with it)....I'll try to get a more specific problems with the mysqld problem.... |
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cdelc040
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm having trouble getting the image booted. When I use...
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timeout 5
splashimage=(cd)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (cd)
kernel (cd)/boot/vmlinuz video=vesafb:1024x768-32 root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/bin/sh cdroot
initrd (cd)/boot/initrd |
...for grub/menu.lst I get...
| Code: | RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 8192KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
cdroot:cdroot: No such file or directory
Kernel panic = not syncing: Attempted to kill init! |
And when I use...
| Code: | default 0
timeout 5
splashimage=(cd)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (cd)
kernel (cd)/boot/vmlinuz video=vesafb:1024x768-32 root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/linuxrc cdroot
initrd (cd)/boot/initrd |
...I get...
| Code: | RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 892KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kermel memory: 212k freed
INIT: version 2.84 booting
Enter runlevel: |
When I enter a number (example 5) it then says...
| Code: | INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel |
I think I saw a very similar problem posted before, but I didn't find an answer. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this.
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bladdo
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice howto 
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RuFI0
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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Does anybody know how i can make the /home/username directory writeable? I think it's what's causing my KDE from starting. I keep getting errors about "dcopserver not started" and "kde conf not writeable" and at the end when the KDE splash screens comes up, it says that KDE can't start cause it can't write to my home directory. Any ideas how i can get pass this? Thanks in advance
cdelc040: Are u using 2004.3 or 2005.0? I had the same problems using 2005.0 and wasted weeks trying to solve it. Then i changed to 2004.3 and it booted perfectly. |
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cdelc040
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using 2005.0. I didn't think it would make a difference. Do I need to use 2004.3 as my portage profile as well, or should I be able to upgrade that to 2005.0?
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RuFI0
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| i used 2004.3 for the base but i used the 2005 profile and it worked just fine with no problems |
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MixMax
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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| You could use unionfs to make your every directory writable. There is nice instuctions how to do that few pages back. |
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RuFI0
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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey MixMax, thanks for the reply but i can't seem to find the page with the unionfs instructions. |
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MixMax
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 7:55 am Post subject: |
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You can find it here at the top of the page posted by Illissius.
It's very handy feature to have on a livecd  |
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nd_stew
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject: So Close, but Squashed! |
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Hey I've been working this awhile... I get to the linuxrc during the boot, can /bin/sh into
it, initrd looks good, bins, and libs, but looks like I'm missing my squashfs file system type
on the mount?
mount: /dev/loop0 has wrong device number or fs type squashfs not supported
./initrd/dev:
total 0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 5, 1 May 10 06:16 console
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 3, 0 May 10 06:16 hda
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 3, 64 May 10 06:16 hdb
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 22, 0 May 10 06:16 hdc
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 22, 64 May 10 06:16 hdd
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 7, 0 May 10 06:16 loop0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 May 10 06:16 null
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 0 May 10 06:16 tty
The only variance to the HowTo I see is that I'm doing a stage3 with 2005.0.
loop0 looked good to me so I figured squash must not be in the kernel correctly.
I saw a reference that > 2.0 of squashfs doesn't work on 2004.3, so I've tried both
squashfs2.1-r2.tar.bz2 and squashfs2.0.tar.gz with no luck.
I enable squash, initrd, etc. in the menuconfig, either patch looks like it goes
in and compiles clean with the kernel. I can mount source.img before and
after the chroot, except on the livecd with a squash mount, hopefully it's
something obvious?
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gieltje
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: automounts |
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I am working on an automount script, that first checks what partitions are available and create directorys with the same name (got that);
for x in $(cat /proc/partitions | awk '{print $4}' | awk 'NR > 2');
do
mkdir ${x}
done
So now I have the directory's with the names of the available partitions, now comes the tricky part. I need to determine what type the partitions are, because I want to mount al the ntfs systems with -t captive-ntfs not with the kernel support.
sfdisk -l gives the partition types, and HPFS/NTFS for ntfs at the end. But I can not find a way to harnas it into a shell script.
Can anyone help me? |
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nd_stew
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: So Close, but Squashed! |
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| nd_stew wrote: |
The only variance to the HowTo I see is that I'm doing a stage3 with 2005.0.
loop0 looked good to me so I figured squash must not be in the kernel correctly.
I saw a reference that > 2.0 of squashfs doesn't work on 2004.3, so I've tried both
squashfs2.1-r2.tar.bz2 and squashfs2.0.tar.gz with no luck.
I enable squash, initrd, etc. in the menuconfig, either patch looks like it goes
in and compiles clean with the kernel. I can mount source.img before and
after the chroot, except on the livecd with a squash mount, hopefully it's
something obvious?
cs |
Yep, looks like kernel, /proc/filesystems doesn't have squashfs on my livecd. I'm compiling against
vanilla-sources (2.6.11-2) whereas the latest squash is 2.6.9. Anyone else come across this?
2005.0 doesn't come with development-sources, does have gentoo-sources at 2.6.11-r3.
What source is recommended for 2005.0 and squash's 2.6.9?
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Bonkie
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: [mini-HowTo] Gentoo Linux LiveCD for Dummies! |
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Its working fine here (many thanks for showing us the way to do this stuff  ), but I have a question that I dont fully understand.
Im currently trying unionfs, shown by a user in a couple of posts earlier, but I was wondering this; Why make tarballs of directories like /var and /etc, when you dont exclude them from your squashed image ???? And since Im not going to create mounts for each of those directories, should I still create the tarballs and unpack them at boot ?? I dont think so (dont see any reason to), but then again, I didn't come up with this whole scheme so I wanted to check first 
| veezi wrote: | | Code: | # Mount root and create read-write directories
mount -t squashfs -o loop /cdrom/files/source.img /new > /dev/null 2>&1
mount -t tmpfs -o size=32m none /new/var > /dev/null 2>&1
mount -t tmpfs -o size=32m none /new/etc > /dev/null 2>&1
mount -t tmpfs -o size=32m none /new/tmp > /dev/null 2>&1
mount -t tmpfs -o size=32m none /new/root > /dev/null 2>&1
cd /new/var && tar xpf /cdrom/files/var.tar > /dev/null 2>&1
cd /new/etc && tar xpf /cdrom/files/etc.tar > /dev/null 2>&1
cd /new/root && tar xpf /cdrom/files/root.tar > /dev/null 2>&1 |
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mksquashfs source/ target/files/source.img
mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size \
4 -boot-info-table -iso-level 4 -hide boot.catalog -o ~/livecd.iso target/
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Illissius
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: [mini-HowTo] Gentoo Linux LiveCD for Dummies! |
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| Bonkie wrote: | Its working fine here (many thanks for showing us the way to do this stuff ), but I have a question that I dont fully understand.
Im currently trying unionfs, shown by a user in a couple of posts earlier, but I was wondering this; Why make tarballs of directories like /var and /etc, when you dont exclude them from your squashed image ???? And since Im not going to create mounts for each of those directories, should I still create the tarballs and unpack them at boot ?? I dont think so (dont see any reason to), but then again, I didn't come up with this whole scheme so I wanted to check first
| veezi wrote: | | Code: | # Mount root and create read-write directories
mount -t squashfs -o loop /cdrom/files/source.img /new > /dev/null 2>&1
mount -t tmpfs -o size=32m none /new/var > /dev/null 2>&1
mount -t tmpfs -o size=32m none /new/etc > /dev/null 2>&1
mount -t tmpfs -o size=32m none /new/tmp > /dev/null 2>&1
mount -t tmpfs -o size=32m none /new/root > /dev/null 2>&1
cd /new/var && tar xpf /cdrom/files/var.tar > /dev/null 2>&1
cd /new/etc && tar xpf /cdrom/files/etc.tar > /dev/null 2>&1
cd /new/root && tar xpf /cdrom/files/root.tar > /dev/null 2>&1 |
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mksquashfs source/ target/files/source.img
mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size \
4 -boot-info-table -iso-level 4 -hide boot.catalog -o ~/livecd.iso target/
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe I did exclude the tarballs, if you'll look at what I posted... but it's been a while since I've looked at it myself (never got around to figuring out how to properly make multisession CDs, which is the next thing I want to do with it), so could be wrong .
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MixMax
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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Bonkie:
When using unionfs you can forget the tarballs all together.
But if you'r still using the older style you need the tarballs to populate the tempfs so that they can contain writable files. Your right they are ingluded twice in the older style. I changed the build script a while back so that after makeing the tarballs it moves the content of the folders to a temp folder (outside of the image folder) and then greates the squasfs image. and at the end moves the content back. I'm sure this isn't the best way but that freed a lot of valuable space on the cd.
But like sayed b4 I highly recomend moving to unionfs |
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