[SoaS] Please consider including the script livecd-iso-to-disk in root of Soas-v4-Mango-lassi

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Fred;

Script is where you said it was,
It works:

Using bootes f14 (rawhide) 611 USB:


Mount
----clip---
> /dev/sdc1 on /media/LIVE type vfat 
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=500,gid=500,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)  
>   ->TARGET
> /dev/sdd1 on /media/Lexar type vfat 
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=500,gid=500,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)   
> ->Source of Mirabelle.iso
> [root at localhost LiveOS]#
> ./livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 800 
> /media/Lexar/Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS.iso /dev/sdc1
> Verifying image...
> /media/Lexar/Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS.iso:   
> 0ce28e3947106fd37bab9317abf09938
> Fragment sums: 
> a3c6e5fd5fba11d2b4da71771e8732b63bcb62b841971f7f39ab5c187f64
> Fragment count: 20
> Press [Esc] to abort check.
> Checking: 100.0%
>
> The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
>
> It is OK to use this media.
> WARNING: THIS WILL DESTROY ANY DATA ON /dev/sdc!!!
> Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort
>
> Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best 
> performance.
> Waiting for devices to settle...
> mkdosfs 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010)
> Copying live image to USB stick
> Updating boot config file
> Initializing persistent overlay file
> 800+0 records in
> 800+0 records out
> 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 149.872 s, 5.6 MB/s
> Installing boot loader
> USB stick set up as live image!
> [root at localhost LiveOS]# 
Confusing with 2 LiveOS locations.....

Thanks;

Tom Gilliard
satellit



Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Thomas C Gilliard <
> satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> ...
>>
>>     
>
>
> It will work better if script is located in  /  of compressed fs.
>   
>> not in /mnt/live/LiveOS
>>
>>     
>
> I suggested it would be more useful in the primary device filesystem because
> it could be more easily accessed without booting the image, and still be
> accessed from the running image as shown below.
>
>
>   
>> Frederick Grose wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I just noticed though that it is the only file in the squashed file system /LiveOS directory.
>>
>> The various file systems are easily confused. The SquashFS I refer to just
>>     
> above is the system that is the active root system for the booted Live USB
> image.  So, for example, in the booted SoaS in Terminal:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# ls -la /LiveOS/
> total 32
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root  4096 May 13 16:01 .
> dr-xr-xr-x. 22 root root  4096 Jun 18 21:18 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root 23040 May 13 16:01 livecd-iso-to-disk
>
>         --Fred
>
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