On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:38 -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > So, I'd like to be able to test mdadm changes before checking them into > CVS and building them in rawhide. To do that, I'd like to be able to > spin a rescue CD from my local rawhide mirror and boot into it on my > test box. Can someone tell me, in very simple terms a kernel engineer > can understand ;-), how I go about creating my own rescue CD images? > > (Please keep me on the Cc: since I'm not subbed to the list, thanks) 1) get a box fully updated to rawhide 2) yum install pungi fedora-kickstarts 2) (as root) pungi -c /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-install-fedora.ks --destdir=/path/ --nosource --nodebuginfo -GCB This assumes that /var/cache/pungi/ has enough space to store 4~ gigs of rpms, and that your destdir is the same filesystem so hardlinks can be made from the cache (or else you'll need an additional 4~ gigs of storage in your destpath). -GCB is Gather (download the packages), Createrepo (obvious), Buildinstall (make the install images, including boot.iso (there is no more rescue image, boot.iso has stage1 and stage2)). You can edit the fedora-install-fedora file to taste, defining local mirrors or reducing the package set. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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