Hi all,
Not sure why the text does not align correctly, please refer to the Live
CD Readme instead:
http://cvs.voyage.hk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/voyage-custom/src/live-cd/overlay_fs/README.live-cd
Regards,
Punky
Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
Hi all,
Happy Lunar New Year to all of you! Last night I have tried a new
installation method using extlinux from Live CD. Using this method,
1. You will have a read-only squashfs root filesystem on a CF that
consumes just 36MB. 2. You cannot modify the rootfs
3. By default, all changes made to the system reside on tmpfs. I.e.
Changes are lost after reboot
4. You can preserve the changes by creating another partition and
labeled it as "caspser-rw", or create a loopback file called
"caspser-rw" at / (see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDPersistence: this is not
tested and need more exploration)
5. You will still be able to boot Live CD again after the
installation. But once the CD is booted, the installed disk with be
mounted as rootfs (it should be the CD) and no way to unmount it.
I.e. a bug needs fix or workaround.
See below for instruction:
==============================================================================
1. As usual, create mount point for the installation disk and format it
# mkdir /tmp/cf
# /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda
This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device. **
Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your
disk! Make sure what you are doing and must do it right!
2. Mount the disk and copy CD content to disk device
# mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/cf
# rsync -aHx /live_media/* /tmp/cf/
3. Create extlinux.conf and install extlinux # cp
/tmp/cf/isolinux/isolinux.cfg /tmp/cf/isolinux/extlinux.conf
# extlinux -i /tmp/cf/isolinux
4. Update master boot record for disk device
# cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/hda
After all, reboot!
==============================================================================
I believe that this installation method also work under PXE boot. And
yes, I have not tested.
Same instruction also appears at the end of Live CD Readme:
http://cvs.voyage.hk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/voyage-custom/src/live-cd/overlay_fs/README.live-cd
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Regards,
Punky
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