Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 12:46 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> I've been playing around with both anaconda and the live-cd, and I had >> an idea to kind of merge the two. I took advantage up the RHupdates >> override on a nfs install, to have anaconda use a squashfs.img that is >> on the nfs server in /LiveOS/,(this could use a bit of work...) creating >> the same device name as the the live-cd install is looking for. Once >> that is done, anaconda uses a patched livecd.py to install to the >> harddrive. This is more of a proof of concept them prime code.. ;) >> First I altered fedora.py in installclass, flags.py, bootloader.py, >> livecd.py, and added a new one called livefs.py, adding them in >> /RHupdates/ to incorporate my changes with out really having to play >> with the loader. > > I wouldn't expect that you would have to go this far... you should > really be able to just mount your NFS dir, loopback mount the > squashfs.img and losetup the os.img block device and then you just need > to run anaconda with the right args as liveinst does. I tried that, by placing an anaconda file in RHupdates with with the same string that liveinst uses: /usr/sbin/anaconda --method=livecd://dev/live-osimg That worked but after the coping image part there was a warning (from bootloader.py) that there was no kernel packages were installed, and the bootloader will not be changed. Then I was off to add the flag and edit bootloader.py. That fixed the warning, but no joy, no grub.conf >Especially all of > the bits for initrd and grub.conf creation feels like it's doing things > which are already done for you > > Jeremy Yea, I know. I didn't really think I needed to change livecd.py before I started. I just couldn't put my finger on why there was that warning. I'll try again with the latest CVS and see what that brings. Jerry
