[Fedora-livecd-list] Targetting other file systems besides iso

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hey,

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:22 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:41 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:

> > I think adding an option 
> > 
> >  --target=[livecd|
> >            disk_msdos_ext3|
> >            disk_msdos_ext3_separate_boot|
> >            ext3|
> >            jffs2]
> > 
> > with this help text (for --help)
> > 
> >  --target     Choose target mode; defaults to livecd
> >               livecd: A compressed livecd ISO with the root file system
> >               disk_msdos_ext3 : An image with a MSDOS partitioning
> >                                 table, a single ext3 data partition and
> >                                 a bootloader for IBM PC hardware
> >               disk_msdos_ext3_separate_boot : Like disk_msdos_ext3 only
> >                                 that /boot is on a separate partition.
> >               ext3            : A single ext3 partition
> >               jffs2           : A jffs2 file system
> > 
> > is what we want. Perhaps disk_msdos_ext3_separate_boot can be achieved
> > by a separate option just like we have --skip-compression for
> > --target=livecd. Thoughts?
> 
> 	I've a few of patches to do something similar, except I've been using
> livecd-creator to build xen system images for the likes of image based
> deployment (e.g. stateless) or this virtual appliances notion.
> 
> 	See the attached patches - the first makes LiveCDTarget be a sub-class
> of InstallationTarget, the second adds --target and the last adds
> RawTarget which I've been playing with.

	So, there hasn't been any comments on these patches. Re-factoring out
the InstallationTarget sub-class seems to me like a good start - can we
get that patch merged?

Thanks,
Mark.