I'm currently working on my livecd generator, and making it compatible with the kickstart format that livecd-tools expects.

My method involves a traditional anaconda network install going under qemu.

So here is what I noticed when I tried feeding a flattened version of

/usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-8-desktop.ks

into it.

The main problem, is that no install method is specified. For now, I'm just going to do a little parsing, taking the first repo line, and converting it into

"
install
url --url=<bla>
"

With a manual wget and selection of a random mirror if mirrorlist is specified.

I'm thinking that livecd-tools might be better off requiring the install method syntax anyway, and basically setting down the idea that the kickstarts that it accepts, should be usable as generic kickstarts for installation in the traditional way.

Thoughts, objections?

Other than that, the only other thing I think I noticed was that it failed to go completely automated due to lack of specified root password entry. Again, I'd suggest explicitly requiring that entry.

If the only issue is who will actually make the modifications, I am of course willing to do that work. But I won't go ahead unless it's agreed it is the right thing to do.

-dmc

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