Any thoughts on my prior message? Also, an important thing I have noticed is that when I do NOT have persistence installed on a bootable USB drive (or when I have a bootable CD), the path to the boot media is available as /mnt/live. However, when I include persistence on a bootable USB, there is no path to the boot media, and the path /mnt/live exists but is empty. As I am counting on pulling several files in from the boot media (but outside the squashfs file system) into my local file system, it is important that there be consistency in where I might find these files, whether or not persistence is installed on the boot media. Can the /mnt/live path be enabled on a bootable USB with persistence installed? Also, another possibility might be to include the external files I need in the actual persistence overlay. Can I move files into this area? If so I will not need to do surgery on the squashfs file system. Thanks much for any help that can be offered. Todd
--- On Mon, 6/30/08, Todd N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Todd N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Modifying ISO to include per-user files To: fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 1:55 PM Thanks much for the info, Jeremy. I ran the mkisofs script as you specified below (we are on an i386 architecture) and re-burned a CD from the newly-created ISO file. On booting, it gets to the point where it says "Booting the kernel.", hangs for a few seconds, then the following appears on the screen: -------------------------------------- WARNING: Cannot find root file system! -------------------------------------- Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence. bash-3.2# Any thoughts? Something obvious I am missing? Thanks, Todd --- On Mon, 6/30/08, Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Modifying ISO to include per-user files To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 9:51 AM On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 09:16 -0700, Todd N wrote: > After creating a LiveCD ISO image, I'd like to be able to make CDs > that are essentially identical, but have a small set of unique > per-user files. I have tried mounting the ISO, copying its contents > to a regular directory, making my changes on the Live CD file system > (not the internal squashfs file system) and recreating the ISO using > mkisofs. However, this new ISO (when burned to a CD) refuses to boot. > Is there a way I can modify the ISO image to include my per-user files on the > /mnt/live file system for each user (and have the resulting ISO be bootable), > rather than running the whole livecd-creator process each time I want a new CD? You'll have to run mkisofs with the appropriate options for making the CD bootable on your arch. On x86, that's something like 'mkisofs -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-info-table -boot-load-size 4 ....' Alternately, you can also use the --base-on support to build derivative images Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
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