On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:34 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote: > Lehal Parminder (GS-FI/ENG3-NA) wrote: > > How can we create a live CD containing files which are not in a RPM? > > More specifically, I need to create a live CD containing tomcat and a > > custom web application(jsp). The custom web application is in war > > format. Is it possible to do it without creating a rpm for the custom > > app? > > I mentioned in a prior mail that I'm a bit annoyed by this as well. I may > whip > up a simple patch allowing args to livecd-creator to throw in extra > directories. > > For now, I think the best way is to use the --shell option, and then do > something like 'ls -altr /var/tmp/livecd-creator*' to find the installation > root > to copy your files into. But NOTE- you would have to do this in ANOTHER > terminal, because in the shell livecd-creator gives you, you are stuck in the > chroot.
You can also grab things in your config's %post section. That's what I've done in the past to accomplish this. I stuck files up on a webserver and just grabbed them with wget Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
