Fellow Fedora LiveCD Enthusiasts:
I present, in lieu of actual FudCON participation, this new software
release-
VirOS-0.5-20080111, while still a few days away from being a functional
drop in replacement for livecd-creator which does not require root
privileges to run, does at least support adding my LiveUSB persistence
implementation to the Fedora-8 LiveCD, and similar LiveISO images.
(without requiring root privs, or running much faster as root if you
like living on the edge)
Basically it works like this-
viros lixmog --output=newlive.iso --addtrait=ZyX.overlay.f8 live.iso
if live.iso was the fedora 8 i686 livecd iso image, then newlive.iso
will be slightly modified to support LiveUSB persistence.
To use LiveUSB persistence, get the livecd-iso-to-disk script from the
/LiveOS/ subdirectory on the iso (as normal), and invoke it as normal,
but add an argument of
--overlay-size-mb 128
to create a 128MB persistence file on the resulting LiveUSB.
Really, you'll have more fun if you make it a 1024MB persistence file on
a 2G LiveUSB.
You can download the latest release of VirOS (in .tgz/.srpm/.rpm) here
http://filteredperception.org/downloads/viros-0.5.20080111/
and if you'd rather not test my software, but just check out the
official f8 livecd patched to support the feature, look here
http://filteredperception.org/downloads/overlay/20080111/
I'll omit the details on xdelta patching, as they were in a prior mail,
and to highlight the fact that this is still all very alpha/developer
quality stuff. I have not done a complete code review myself, therefore
it is too early for me to even ask others to do a code review.
But having finally ironed out the last known bugs with the persistence
feature, and having put together a reasonable rpm of the rest of the
stuff, I am actually pretty pleased with how it's shaping up....
Bug reports are welcome and expected... Enjoy...
-dmc
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