Hi Frederick, On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> it would be great if somebody could give this standard procedure a try >> and confirm whether it works or not, so that we can react appropriately >> upon a ticket. You'll need two USB keys for this. >> >> (1) use Fedora's LiveUSB Creator to prepare the first key with SoaS >> >> (2) boot the first key and apply some changes as in: >> >> (a) change the language >> (b) download a number of activities >> >> (3) plug in the second USB key and determine its mount point >> >> (4) run as root on the first key: yum install livecd-tools (might or >> might not be already present, depending on which SoaS version you use) >> >> (5) execute the following command from the terminal on the first key: >> >> livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 300 /dev/sr0 /dev/sdc1 >> >> (in which case /dev/sdc1 would be the mount point of the second key) >> >> Does this [ ] WORK or [ ] FAIL? Please let us know! >> >> Thanks, >> --Sebastian >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > I've tested a different approach with some success for customizing and > replicating a LiveUSB image: > > 1. Downloaded > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/soas-i386-20100327.19.iso > > 2. In Fedora13 (32-bit), ran this script: > modified_livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 400 --delete-home > --extra-kernel-args selinux=0 /path_to_soas-i386-20100327.19.iso > /dev/sdb1 > > 3. Booted the LiveUSB device1 and made a few changes. > > 4. Mounted a second USB device2 on an extended USB port on my monitor, > confirmed its partition name as /dev/sdc1, then unmounted it. > > 5. Mounted my Fedora13 partition (/dev/sda1) onto the device1 LiveUSB > image, and ran this script in the Sugar Terminal: > /mnt/F13/home/account/.../ modified_livecd-iso-to-disk --noverify > --delete-home --extra-kernel-args selinux=0 --copy-overlay /dev/live > /dev/sdc1 > > 6. Shutdown and swapped USB devices in order to boot device2 from the > motherboard USB port. > > 7. Confirmed that I had a replicated image with the copied overlay file. > > 8. More testing needed. > > The modified script is attached. > > Here is the diff from the current tools_livecd-iso-to-disk:
That is awesome work! Do you think the patch is either useful for upstream or self contained enough it won't affect it? If so could you possibly file a bug [1] so we can can get it upstream? Cheers, Peter [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&component=livecd-tools _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
