Hi, I thought I'd share this with the list, since it is based on your fine work.
Last week, we held the second annual Red Hat High here in Raleigh. I helped with the software side of things, and used the livecd tools to do it. If you haven't heard about RHH, here are some articles: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/09/red-hat-high-2007-getting-started/ http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/13/red-hat-high-update/ http://www.blendernation.com/2007/07/16/red-hat-high-2007/ In a nutshell, it's a technology camp for incoming high school freshmen, using all open source software. For the classrooms, we used lab space donated by NCSU. However, a couple of the labs were being used for NCSU classes during the week of the camp, so we couldn't just format the drives and install Fedora. Our solution was to use a live cd. I based the live cd .ks file off of the example ones provided in livecd-tools. We added some packages, made some changes to the %post script, and ended up with a very workable Fedora 7 system. Here's the .iso and .ks file if you're curious: http://people.redhat.com/rnorwood/rhh-livecd/ We used USB keys for persistent storage. If I'd had more time, I would've liked to either: o Make a live USB key with persistent storage. Probably make it so that the fedora user's homedir would be mounted rw off of the USB stick, and thus persist between boots. o Figure out some sort of network storage mechanism. We looked at gmailfs, but couldn't get it to work in time. For some of the other labs, where we were allowed to format the drives, I modified the livecd .ks file (mostly removed parts of the %post and added partitioning options), and made a kickstart iso to use that file. This worked perfectly. With some %include magic, I could've minimized the duplication between the two .ks files. I did run into a few technical glitches - one lab had systems with a very incompatible ATI video chipset that system-config-display would not configure properly automatically. A bit of manual tweaking produced an xorg.conf file that would boot the machine into an acceptable resolution. I took that file and produced a livecd which replaced the default xorg.conf with the tweaked one in the %post section. Some of the machine's bioses were not configured to allow booting from cdrom, but the NCSU lab folks were helpful there. Anyway, many thanks to the livecd folks, and I hope you enjoyed the success story. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
