[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: failing at my first attempt at liveCD creation

[Jerry Vonau]

Fulko Hew wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm failing at my first attempt at creating (or recreating) a live CD
>>
>> - I'm using Fedora 8 (because I don't find KDE in F9 usable yet)
>> - I have SELinux disabled.
>>
>> Following the process described in the LiveCDHowTo, well, actually
>> the step:
>>
>> livecd-creator --config=/usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-minimal.ks
> 
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
> Following up on my own email... I am making progress, but not because
> I changed anything... I now have success in creating a live CD, just by
> running _exactly_ the same thing again.  Now its basically working
> (without changing a thing... Yeah, I have a hard time believing that
> myself.)
> 
> Now that I can basically create a bootable media... I want to customize it.
> But if I use the standard approach of always downloading the RPMs
> across the net, it takes a long time, so therefore I'd like to have a local
> repository to suck from.  I haven't been able to find a 'good/working'
> set if instructions to follow that a) creates a local repo, and b) changes
> required to the kickstart file so it _successfully_ uses that local repo.
> 
> Surely there must be a definitive set of instructions/docs for this
> _whole_ downloading/setup/building/customizing a liveCD process?
> (I haven't found any 'complete' instructions yet.)  Pointers anyone?
> 

You could also use the --cachedir= setting in livecd-creator to keep the 
cache from being deleted in between runs.

Yea, no complete instructions, but this comes close:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1157197&seqNum=4

For a) grab the rpms and run createrepo examples at: 
http://fedoranews.org/alex/tutorial/yum/
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/hal_canary/yum/

For b) edit the --config= file changing the repo= line
ie, from: repo --name=development \ 
--mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch
to:
repo --name=development --baseurl=file:///path/to/your/repo


Hope this helps,

Jerry