Johnny Hughes wrote:
Patrice Guay wrote:
I am currently building a Live CD for CentOS 5. I am using the livecd-creator script from the livecd-tools project [1].
Here is my setup:
- A workstation with CentOS 5 i386
- dosfstools 2.11-8 [2]
- livecd-tools 009-11 [2]
- pykickstart 1.0-1 [2]
To create a live CD, you need a kickstart configuration file[3].
You also need to increase the maximum number of open files: # ulimit -n 65535
Then, you can start the creation process (~30 minutes): # livecd-creator --config=centos-livecd-desktop.ks
The resulting iso image (644MB) can be transfered to an USB key... # livecd-iso-to-disk <isopath> <usbstick device>
... or simply burned to a CD or DVD.
The live CD has a writable /usr directory. However, it can not be used to install CentOS 5 on your system. A new anaconda package will be required to achieve this functionality.
[1] http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=hosted/livecd [2] These packages are available at http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/i386/live [3] http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/i386/live/centos-...
-- Patrice Guay
Thanks. I was working on this too ... but since you have finished this part, I will concentrate on anaconda to try and get this installable.
Thank you for your hard work on the Live CD.
Johnny Hughes
I completed a first version of a Live CD from which one could install CentOS 5. The installation process uses anaconda in graphical mode. I had to repackage several srpms from Fedora 7 to achieve this - anaconda being the hardest since it contains a lot of branding.
As always, those packages are available at: http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/i386/live
The receipe given above will yield a Live CD including an installer.
I would be pleased if the CentOS QA team could review my work. -- Patrice Guay