On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 20:07 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > 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 Do you have a kernel package installed in your image? Specifically a package named kernel. Otherwise, the check in livecd.py's kernelVersionList() won't work -- patches cheerfully accepted to make it handle at least looking for anything that provides kernel :-) Jeremy
