[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Add initramfs image creator

2008-01-18 Thread Alan Pevec
Add initramfs image creator Installed system is packaged as a cpio archive to be used as initramfs. Based on markmc's patch: http://people.redhat.com/markmc/live/livecd-creator-patches/livecd-initramfs-target.patch Signed-off-by: Alan Pevec [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: livecd/imgcreate/creator.py

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Add initramfs image creator

2008-01-18 Thread Alan Pevec
Mark McLoughlin wrote: - Symlinking /init to /sbin/init seems a little odd, but I guess it is useful. yes, to avoid having to specify rdinit kernel param (defaults to /init) - I'm not sure how generally useful this is and whether it really belongs in the imgcreate public API.

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Review? LiveUSB persistence

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Pevec
Douglas McClendon wrote: attaching to the bug report). But digressing a bit... To see the initramfs, I think you might have to change nash so that it goes back to using pivotroot instead of mount --move. And then presumably hook into halt so that at the end, it fires off something from the

[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] mkliveinitrd: wait for udev queue to clear before killing udevd

2008-04-14 Thread Alan Pevec
mkliveinitrd: wait for udev queue to clear before killing udevd udevd doesn't seem to cleanup on kill, so let it clear events from /dev/.udev/queue/ Or should this be filed as udevd bug (cleanup .udev/queue/ on startup and/or kill) ? diff --git a/mkliveinitrd b/mkliveinitrd index

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] mkliveinitrd: wait for udev queue to clear before killing udevd

2008-04-15 Thread Alan Pevec
Harald Hoyer wrote: If I understand that correctly, a udevd is running in initrd, which is killed and then normal boot with rc.sysinit start and start_udev is called. yes Since start_udev replays all events anyway, why don't you kill udevd and remove the old queue? Also possible solution.

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Modifying the original Fedora Live CD

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Pevec
Jeremy Katz wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 19:05 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: Sean Godsell wrote: I don't know why fedora didn't take the time to use squashfs+lzma, but it is worth it. I hope they put it in the next release. Most likely because it doesn't appear to be included in the upstream

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Modifying the original Fedora Live CD

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Pevec
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Around 2007 august or so, Phillip Lougher cited several reasons for not merging this patch in this list IIRC. Might want to look up the archives. I couldn't find squashfs/lzma upstream status in the archives of this list, but markmc pointed me to

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] How to install the pxe patch and use it?

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Pevec
Pollux Su wrote: How to install this patch? Where to download it? Sorry for this foolish question. Thank you! livecd-iso-to-pxeboot is included in livecd-tools-015 and higher -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com

[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] fix SelinuxConfig firewall side-effect

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Pevec
firewall --disabled is ignored: SelinuxConfig is running lokkit with SEL options only and --enabled (for firewall) is the default patch for livecd-tools-017.1-1.fc9 i.e. f9-branch in livecd git Signed-off-by: Alan Pevec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- imgcreate/creator.py |3 +-- imgcreate

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] fsck errors

2008-07-28 Thread Alan Pevec
Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) wrote: If I review the output of the livecd-creator command, I see messages similar to: | umount: /disk0/scratch/imgcreate-RK0UU5/install_root: device is busy | ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: Device or resource busy Yeah, I've seen that too

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Bootloader --append option support?

2008-08-08 Thread Alan Pevec
Bryan Kearney wrote: I am seeing the append flag being used by the appliance creator. Any reason to (1) not use appliance creator or (2) ignore this in livecd tools? ad (1) oVirt Node image is normal livecd image, while appliance-creator produces disk image ad (2) this clearly a livecd-tools

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] imgcreate/kickstart.py imgcreate/live.py tools/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh

2008-08-13 Thread Alan Pevec
Jeremy Katz wrote: imgcreate/kickstart.py |7 +++ imgcreate/live.py |4 please revert those changes since it's already covered by http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=livecd;a=commitdiff;h=32575fd38289cb6777c2e2f9fd9ccc53b0bc8d55

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] imgcreate/kickstart.py imgcreate/live.py tools/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh

2008-08-14 Thread Alan Pevec
ok, one more thing :) Jeremy Katz wrote: --- a/tools/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh +++ b/tools/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh +# Get boot append line from original cd image. +if [ -f $CDMNT/isolinux/isolinux.cfg ]; then +APPEND=$(grep -m1 append isolinux.cfg | sed -e s#CDLABEL=[^ ]*#/$ISOBASENAME# -e

[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] fix extracting boot parameters from isolinux.cfg

2008-09-17 Thread Alan Pevec
Signed-off-by: Alan Pevec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- tools/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh b/tools/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh index 8b5571a..280d354 100755 --- a/tools/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh +++ b/tools

[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Proposed patches for livecd/EL-5 branch

2008-10-29 Thread Alan Pevec
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Alan Pevec wrote: Hi all, I have collected few backport patches for EPEL5 livecd, they're at http://repo.or.cz/w/livecd/EPEL5.git from tag livecd-tools-013-8.1-EPEL5-patches onwards. Please have a look, they're low risk and work for me. I'd like to push them to EPEL

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] add --global-config

2008-10-30 Thread Alan Pevec
Jeremy Katz wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:49 +0100, Alan Pevec wrote: to use default YUM config i.e. /etc/yum.conf With this option you don't have to supply repo kickstart commands. This makes it so that your images aren't reproducible without knowing what was installed on the system which

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] pre-install scripts and syslinux

2008-11-14 Thread Alan Pevec
Jeremy Katz wrote: It sounds like for what you're doing, some of the functionality in the appliance-creator tool (should be in some of the thincrust.net related packages) will give you exactly what you're looking for. It already uses directives in the ks.cfg for setting up partitions and then

[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] fix device command version check

2008-12-07 Thread Alan Pevec
From: Alan Pevec [EMAIL PROTECTED] F8_Device is a FC3_Device subclass, so isinstance was always true Signed-off-by: Alan Pevec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- imgcreate/kickstart.py |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/imgcreate/kickstart.py b/imgcreate/kickstart.py

[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] localboot is available only in ISOLINUX and PXELINUX

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Pevec
Signed-off-by: Alan Pevec ape...@redhat.com --- tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh |3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh index d37a2e9..364deb1 100755 --- a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh +++ b/tools/livecd-iso

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Make USB disk into full DVD installer

2009-04-29 Thread Alan Pevec
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Warren Togami wtog...@redhat.com wrote: changelog This patch allows livecd-iso-to-disk.sh to detect if the specified .iso image is an Anaconda DVD installer. If so, it copies it to the USB disk and configures syslinux to boot it. Anaconda will automatically

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] boot livecd iso?

2009-05-11 Thread Alan Pevec
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:09 AM, don fong df...@dfong.com wrote: question: how can i boot the livecd distro from a hard disk partition, hopefully with the persistent option?  i have found a lot of pages describing how to do this with a USB stick, but i have not been able to find clear

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] How to Pass Parameters to isolinux.cfg for console redirect

2009-10-10 Thread Alan Pevec
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Lars Bjørndal lars.bjorn...@broadpark.no wrote: But what if you need to remove a default parameter, e.g. rhgb from the kernel parameter list on the livecd? you can modify isolinux.cfg as you like in %post --nochroot e.g.

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-iso-to-pxe problem

2009-10-10 Thread Alan Pevec
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen kana...@kanarip.com wrote: Can you, and will you, send this upstream (to me for example?). Hi Jeroen, as noted in that workaround, this is a side-effect of a change in mkliveinitrd which affects only PXE boot of the livecd image, so fix could

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] 2 commits - imgcreate/kickstart.py Makefile

2009-10-23 Thread Alan Pevec
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Warren Togami 砥上勇 wtog...@fedoraproject.org wrote:    version 030 for completeness, please push also release tags to git, last I see is livecd-tools-027 Thanks, Alan -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Pevec
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Jeremy Katz ka...@fedoraproject.org wrote: New commits: commit 09678eb9284f2df7618c4609998fd3bd95787251 Author: Warren Togami wtog...@redhat.com Date:   Thu Oct 29 17:22:58 2009 -0400    livecd-iso-to-disk properly configures a Fedora 12 Installer DVD for

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Unnecessary SELinux Failure Condition?

2009-11-25 Thread Alan Pevec
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Jay Greguske jgreg...@redhat.com wrote: Jay Greguske wrote: Jeremy Katz wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Jay Greguske jgreg...@redhat.com wrote: Jeremy Katz wrote: There have been some problems more recently with the booleans stuff if SELinux