Starting a new thread since the original subject was not about an ISO. William Harrington wrote:
> I have been updating the 6.3 livecd for 7.x releases. It can also be > used to build previous releases. > > I spent the afternoon and evening updating and testing the current > updated livecd for the 7.3 release. > All are welcome to test and give input. Use this for ideas of what you > may want to do. > You can also view the livecd source via the wiki and see what you'd > like to do. > > In the past we had a build system which built a whole system and then > created the livecd. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ We need to get that on a different server that has better download speed. I'm getting it now and it's a 30 minute process at about 200-300 KB/s. Downloads from anduin are at 1 MB/s. > When I update the livecd I do these things in any uncertain order > after I mount root.ext2 via a loop device: > > update pci id and usb id databases > update /etc/issue.* files > put the new html and xml book info in /usr/share > update /etc/profile and /etc/defaults skel info for mozilla prefs to > automatically open the book > Update the readme for the current release. > Update jhalfs with current trunk. > > I have scripts which will build the initramfs if newer modules are > required > I have scripts which build the compressed root.ext2 for the iso > I have scripts which build the iso and create the MD5SUM and SHA1SUM > data. We have several pages in BLFS that describe complex issues. For instance: About initramfs, About RAID, qemu, Running a Subversion Server, wpa_supplicant, BIND, Setting Up a Network Firewall. I'd be glad to add a section on building an LFS ISO. If someone writes it in text format, I'll be glad to put it into the docbook xml format and integrate it into the book. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
