I had to make some small changes to get koan/LiveCD building under
Fediora 8 and then creating a Fedora 8 install under VMware.


for base.cfg the livecd tools don't seem the take the --packages flag
anymore so I added the some extras to %package and also sfdisk seemed to
want all 4 primary partions configured - although that might be down to
me building in a VMware target machine
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diff -U 10 base.cfg.orig base.cfg
--- base.cfg.orig 2007-11-22 11:22:49.000000000 +0000
+++ base.cfg 2007-12-06 16:14:59.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,46 +1,46 @@
lang en_US.UTF-8
-keyboard us
-timezone US/Eastern
+keyboard uk
+timezone --utc Europe/London
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
firewall --disabled
rootpw --iscrypted $1$mF86/UHC$WvcIcX2t6crBz2onWxyac.
services --disable sshd

# TODO: how to replace i386 with $basearch

# TODO: apparently calling it fedora-dev instead of a-dev makes things
# not work. Perhaps it has something to do with the default repos in
# /etc/yum.repos.d not getting properly disabled?

-repo --name=todos
--baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/
-repo --name=updatez
--baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386/
+repo --name=todos
--baseurl=http://repo.starground.co.uk/rpms-fedora/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/
+repo --name=updatez
--baseurl=http://repo.starground.co.uk/rpms-fedora/updates/8/i386/

repo --name=newkoan --baseurl=file:///tmp/newkoan/

text
bootloader --location=mbr
install
zerombr

part / --fstype ext3 --size=1024 --grow --ondisk=/dev/sda --asprimary
part swap --size=1027 --ondisk=/dev/sda --asprimary

%packages
@base
#@core
@hardware-support
file
syslinux
kernel
bash
-util-linux
+util-linux-ng
koan
avahi-tools
#aspell-*
-m17n-db-*
-man-pages-*
# gimp help is huge
-gimp-help
# lose the compat stuff
-compat*
# space sucks
@@ -58,20 +58,25 @@
# duplicate functionality
-tomboy
-pinfo
-wget
# scanning takes quite a bit of space :/
-xsane
-xsane-gimp
# while hplip requires pyqt, it has to go
-hplip
#-*debuginfo # error
+policycoreutils
+grub
+eject
+tree
+

%post

cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live << EOF
#!/bin/bash
#
# live: Init script for live image
#
# chkconfig: 345 99 99

@@ -99,22 +104,24 @@
chkconfig --level 345 atd off
chkconfig --level 345 anacron off
chkconfig --level 345 readahead_early off
chkconfig --level 345 readahead_later off

# Stopgap fix for RH #217966; should be fixed in HAL instead
touch /media/.hal-mtab

# take over a drive to use as temporary space
sfdisk /dev/sda -uM << ESFDISK
- ,1000
- ;
+,1000
+;
+;
+;
ESFDISK
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1

# fix fstab/mtab

cat >> /etc/fstab << EFSTAB
/dev/sda1 /tmp/boot ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0
EFSTAB

cat >> /etc/mtab << EMTAB
@@ -130,32 +137,32 @@
mknod /dev/mapper/livecd-rw b 8 0
grub-install --root-directory=/tmp/boot/ --no-floppy /dev/sda

# need a grub.conf file to run grubby from within koan
cat > /tmp/boot/boot/grub/grub.conf << EGRUB
# grub.conf
default=0
timeout=5
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
-title spacer (2.6.21-1.3228.fc7)
+title spacer ()
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
initrd /boot/initrd.img
EGRUB

# now we're ready to do it for real
INSERT_KOAN_ARGS --livecd

# once through debugging
# eject
-# reboot
+reboot

EOF

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live
/sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live
/sbin/chkconfig --add fedora-live

# save a little bit of space at least...
rm -f /boot/initrd*
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and for build.py I commented the --package stuff and corrected the
_DISTRO_ stuff to F8
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diff -U 10 build.py build1.py
--- build.py 2007-11-22 09:24:05.000000000 +0000
+++ build1.py 2007-12-04 08:25:40.000000000 +0000
@@ -25,23 +25,23 @@
# tweak at your own risk

basef = open("./base.cfg")
base_config = basef.read()
basef.close()

# not expected to work with anything lower than FC-7
# use i386 for compatibility, still works with x86_64
# this is the LiveCD's OS, not the target install OS

-USE_DISTRO_SHORT = "FC-7"
-USE_DISTRO = "FC-7-i386"
-USE_REPO = "fc7i386extras"
+USE_DISTRO_SHORT = "F8"
+USE_DISTRO = "F8-i386"
+USE_REPO = "f8i386extras"

# packages to put on the LiveCD

packages = [
"kernel", "bash", "koan", "policycoreutils", "grub", "eject", "tree"
]

#=======

def main(args):
@@ -87,22 +87,22 @@
cfg.write(base_config.replace("INSERT_KOAN_ARGS", "/usr/bin/koan %s"
% options.koan))

cfg.close()

# ======

cmd = "livecd-creator"
cmd = cmd + " --fslabel=koan-live-cd"
cmd = cmd + " --config=/tmp/koanlive.cfg"



- for x in packages:
- cmd = cmd + " --package=%s" % x
+# for x in packages:
+# cmd = cmd + " --package=%s" % x

print "running: %s" % cmd


try:
os.remove("koan-live-cd.iso")
except:
print "existing file not removed"
subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
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Not much - but I hope this helps.

Dave Hatton

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