Rusty,
On 29/01/09 12:40 PM, "Lynch, Rusty" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 04:50 -0700, Daniel Baeyens wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've tested mic2 and it created successfully a liveusb image... >> >> My problem is that now I would like to modify it's contents. With mic1 >> is easy to do (getting a console and rebuilding the image), but is it >> possible with mic2? Do we have to wait for some features added (like >> chroot-ing an existing image)? >> >> Is it possible to do something with mic1 and the mic2 image? I would >> like something easier than extracting the squashfs.img file and >> rebuild it after the changes... >> >> Any idea? Or is it better to still continue with mic1? > > I've expressed the same desire to Anas, but I don't think he ever had a > chance to implement it (and i know i never gave it a try.) Anas... i > didn't see any new command line options. Did i miss something? > > BTW, you can create a 'loop' device which is a filesystem on on a file, > so you can: > > # sudo moblin-image-creator -c some.ks -f loop -k /var/tmp/my-cache > # sudo mount -o loop some-TIMESTAMP.img /some/mount/point > # sudo mount --bind /proc /some/mount/point # so you can use yum > # sudo cp /etc/hosts /some/mount/point/ect/ # so you can use yum > # sudo chroot /some/mount/point > > Anas, seems all we really need is a way to say: > 'take this loop file and transform it into <pick an image type>' > Yes, and that is what we had in mind. Basically split the process into 2 steps. First create a file system that one can chroot to and modify and then the second step is to take this filesystem file and create the output and final image. Anas > Or maybe something more generic to allow transforming between any format > type (like take a vmware disk and transform it into a usbkey) > > --rusty > > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
