You didn't copy this back to the list. Since the questions appear to be
targeted to the list, I am going to copy this back to the list.

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:08:10 +0800,
  Lee Eric <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. My goal is simple, I just wanna make a live cd
> not using livecd-creator but take steps what livecd-creator does.

That's a pretty odd request. If you want to learn, a good place to start
would be looking at the installed python code that runs.

You might even be able to plugin the reiserfs stuff into a modifed version.

There will probably be some gotcha's along the way.

> Here's what I saw from livecd-creator README.
> 
> o Sets up a file for the ext3 file system that will contain all the
>    data comprising the live CD
> 
>  o Loopback mounts that file into the file system so there is an
>    installation root
> 
>  o Bind mounts certain kernel file systems (/dev, /dev/pts, /proc,
>    /sys, /selinux) inside the installation root
> 
>  o Uses a configuration file to define the requested packages and
>    default configuration options.  The format of this file is the same
>    as is used for installing a system via kickstart.
> 
>  o Installs, using yum, the requested packages into the installation
>    using the given repositories
> 
>  o Optionally runs scripts as specified by the live CD configuration file.
> 
>  o Relabels the entire installation root (for SELinux)
> 
>  o Creates a live CD specific initramfs that matches the installed kernel
> 
>  o Unmounts the kernel file systems mounted inside the installation root
> 
>  o Unmounts the installation root
> 
>  o Runs resize2fs to minimize and unminimize the ext3 file to remove data
>    from deleted files
> 
>  o Runs resize2fs to minimize on a devicemapper snapshot, to generate a
>    small minimized delta image file which can be used by anaconda to
>    reduce installation time by not copying unused data to disk
> 
>  o Creates a squashfs file system containing only the ext3 file (compression)
> 
>  o Configures the boot loader
> 
>  o Creates an iso9660 bootable CD
> 
> I wanna take steps it mentions then I can make a Live CD. I hope
> someone shoe me some tips for every commands.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Eric
> 
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 23:52:32 +0800,
> >  Lee Eric <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm a user of Fedora 12. And I wanna make my own Live CD by using some
> >> ways. I noticed livecd-creator works well and I read its read me under
> >> /usr/share/doc, it looks like here's a chapter named "HOW THE LIVE CD
> >> CREATOR WORKS" tell us how to make a Live CD manually. So I'm very
> >> curious how this magic happened then a Live CD created.
> >
> > What is your overall goal. It is unlikely (though it could be) that the
> > way you are trying to do this is the right approach.
> >
> > Normally you want to work with the kickstart files. Those can contain more
> > than a list of packages to install. If you explain what your overall goal is
> > someone might be able to make some suggestions with how to achieve it using
> > a kickstart file.
> >
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