fiddling with livecd-creator

subhodip biswas subhodip at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 4 17:17:43 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> subhodip biswas wrote:
>  > hi !
>  > i have two questions. though unrelated still i asked them at once :
>  > --------------------
>  > i used  livecd-fedora-base-desktop.ks in order to built a live cd
>  > using live cd creator . Now i am little bit worried about the packages
>  > downloaded. Because it already did a 620 MB download. Have i done
>  > anything wrong here.
>  > I just needed a basic GNOME Desktop.
>
>  Check the desktop ks file and the base desktop ks file it depends on and
>  add/remove programs as you wish. It is always better to have a local
>  Fedora mirror of the needed packages if you are building a Live CD. Use
>  the --cache option for avoiding repeated downloads.  If you already have
>  a Live CD image and would just to add more packages to the existing
>  image, use the -b option.
>
Thanx for the help.
>
>  > One more question . Can Filesystem structure  be created within a
>  > directory say /opt as in ltsp . if yes ..how ?
>
>  Not sure what you are trying to do here but mkdir <path>/foo/bar/bing
>  works if you want to just create a series of directories.
>
yeah i know that but ,
I just want to automate the creation of filesystem structure under any
directory. thats just an experiment i want to do .
>  Rahul
>
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