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-livecd-desktop.ks > > > -- > Patrice Guay Patrice, 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070729/3e01a48c/attachment-0007.sig>