* [gentoo-dev] Creating a Stage 3 for Custom LiveCD
@ 2003-06-13 18:00 Sean P. Kane
2003-06-13 18:09 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-06-13 18:12 ` Ben Calvert
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Sean P. Kane @ 2003-06-13 18:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: livewire, gentoo-dev
I am working on creating a Multi-OS Rescue CD (i.e. not just for
rescuing a Linux system) and am doing my first very basic test build
with livecd-ng. I was wondering how one builds a custom stage3 tar,
other then simply untarring it and copying your own files over. Do you
have a script that can copy the appropriate files from a running system
to a directory for tarring up? Or any other useful little tools that may
help me out.
Thanks,
Sean
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spkane@genomatica.com
Lead Infrastructure Architect
Genomatica, Inc.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Stage 3 for Custom LiveCD
2003-06-13 18:00 [gentoo-dev] Creating a Stage 3 for Custom LiveCD Sean P. Kane
@ 2003-06-13 18:09 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-06-13 20:24 ` Sean P. Kane
2003-06-13 18:12 ` Ben Calvert
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From: Jon Portnoy @ 2003-06-13 18:09 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Sean P. Kane; +Cc: livewire, gentoo-dev
Stages are built via stager.
I just posted an updated stage building guide to a bug report. Please
check out http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22711 - if you don't
find that very readable as XML, just get the latest tarball in
http://cvs.gentoo.org/~avenj/stager/ and follow stager.README in the
tarball.
Feel free to contact me off-list if you need further assistance after
that.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:00:55AM -0700, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> I am working on creating a Multi-OS Rescue CD (i.e. not just for
> rescuing a Linux system) and am doing my first very basic test build
> with livecd-ng. I was wondering how one builds a custom stage3 tar,
> other then simply untarring it and copying your own files over. Do you
> have a script that can copy the appropriate files from a running system
> to a directory for tarring up? Or any other useful little tools that may
> help me out.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sean P. Kane
> spkane@genomatica.com
> Lead Infrastructure Architect
> Genomatica, Inc.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "When we destroy something man has created we call it vandalism......
> When we destroy something that Gaia has created we call it progress."
>
>
> --
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Stage 3 for Custom LiveCD
2003-06-13 18:09 ` Jon Portnoy
@ 2003-06-13 20:24 ` Sean P. Kane
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From: Sean P. Kane @ 2003-06-13 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Thank you very much. That should be a lot of help.
Sean
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:09, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> Stages are built via stager.
>
> I just posted an updated stage building guide to a bug report. Please
> check out http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22711 - if you don't
> find that very readable as XML, just get the latest tarball in
> http://cvs.gentoo.org/~avenj/stager/ and follow stager.README in the
> tarball.
>
> Feel free to contact me off-list if you need further assistance after
> that.
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:00:55AM -0700, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> > I am working on creating a Multi-OS Rescue CD (i.e. not just for
> > rescuing a Linux system) and am doing my first very basic test build
> > with livecd-ng. I was wondering how one builds a custom stage3 tar,
> > other then simply untarring it and copying your own files over. Do you
> > have a script that can copy the appropriate files from a running system
> > to a directory for tarring up? Or any other useful little tools that may
> > help me out.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sean
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Sean P. Kane
> > spkane@genomatica.com
> > Lead Infrastructure Architect
> > Genomatica, Inc.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > "When we destroy something man has created we call it vandalism......
> > When we destroy something that Gaia has created we call it progress."
> >
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Stage 3 for Custom LiveCD
2003-06-13 18:00 [gentoo-dev] Creating a Stage 3 for Custom LiveCD Sean P. Kane
2003-06-13 18:09 ` Jon Portnoy
@ 2003-06-13 18:12 ` Ben Calvert
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From: Ben Calvert @ 2003-06-13 18:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Sean P. Kane; +Cc: livewire, gentoo-dev
Sean P. Kane said:
> I am working on creating a Multi-OS Rescue CD (i.e. not just for
> rescuing a Linux system) and am doing my first very basic test build
> with livecd-ng. I was wondering how one builds a custom stage3 tar,
> other then simply untarring it and copying your own files over.
I generally roll my own in a chrooted environment on my faster servers (3x
Dell 2650s with distcc ) and then tar up the results. If you're doing
your own installs, you're not bound by what Daniel puts in the various
stages - mine typically have everything but the kernal compile, grub,
fstab, /etc/hosts, and /etc/hostname. As much as I love watching things
compile, I'll never go back to compiling KDE on a standalone syste :)
OTOH, If you're building a rescue cd, you don't actually need any stages
at all. I regularly use the latest ISO to mount ntfs volumes and fix
issues with them. I've never tried to mount a UFS volume, so I don't know
if this would work on a *BSD machine, but then those rarely need rescuing
anyway.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Stage 3 for Custom LiveCD
@ 2003-06-13 18:12 Ben Calvert
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From: Ben Calvert @ 2003-06-13 18:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Sean P. Kane; +Cc: livewire, gentoo-dev
Sean P. Kane said:
> I am working on creating a Multi-OS Rescue CD (i.e. not just for
> rescuing a Linux system) and am doing my first very basic test build
> with livecd-ng. I was wondering how one builds a custom stage3 tar,
> other then simply untarring it and copying your own files over.
I generally roll my own in a chrooted environment on my faster servers (3x
Dell 2650s with distcc ) and then tar up the results. If you're doing
your own installs, you're not bound by what Daniel puts in the various
stages - mine typically have everything but the kernal compile, grub,
fstab, /etc/hosts, and /etc/hostname. As much as I love watching things
compile, I'll never go back to compiling KDE on a standalone syste :)
OTOH, If you're building a rescue cd, you don't actually need any stages
at all. I regularly use the latest ISO to mount ntfs volumes and fix
issues with them. I've never tried to mount a UFS volume, so I don't know
if this would work on a *BSD machine, but then those rarely need rescuing
anyway.
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