On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 09:40 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 08:40 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > Ugh. The amount of copy and paste here is going to lead to a nitemare > > of keeping things in sync I suspect... which probably means that > > something else needs to be done :-/ > > > > And copying stage2 over and then not setting things up to take advantage > > of it is just wasting space on the usb stick > > Ooops, I mistakenly assumed that if stage2 was there it would > opportunistically be used like on a CD. Mea culpa. However this was > posted as a starting off point for discussion and the like. Nope, it's going to require an explicit stage2=. We're not going to go off searching every disk on the system to look for a stage2 > I was > thinking on the bus today that it wouldn't take much effort to extend > the livecd-iso-to-disk script to be a more generic image-iso-to-disk and > figure things out as it goes. It could also be made to let you create > both a Live USB stick as well as a usb stick suitable for starting > installs. However before getting to that point, I wanted something > usable for folks to have bootable USB sticks for installs again. It's incredibly easy to get something that will take a kernel and initrd and even do some basic munging of isolinux.cfg -> syslinux.cfg. But doing anything more generic requires real knowledge of what happens once that kernel and initrd boots. The live images use root= bits to look for something (and expects a certain layout), anaconda expects something else Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
