Re: [gentoo-releng] Catalyst Woes

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:01, derek tracy wrote:
> My question still remains how would I go about having root
> automatically logged in as it was before?

You have livecd in your USE in livecd-stage1 and then baselayout takes
care of it.  You are re-emerging baselayout in livecd-stage1, right?

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:01:02 -0400, derek tracy <tracyde@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The xinitrc can be setup by using the livecd/xinitrc option in
> > > livecd-stage2 in catalyst 1.0.9 (or better, when it comes).
> > 
> > I do use the livecd/xinitrc to setup the xinitrc file and I love this option.
> > 
> > > > programs wrote a bash script to "inject" the configuration files that
> > > > I created for openbox, torsmo, pypanel, and the xinitrc.  (menu.xml,
> > > > rc.xml, pypanelrc).  Created the cd and now when I boot I can't do
> > >
> > > Personally, I just create the files during the fsscript.sh stage of my
> > > livecd-stage2.
> > 
> > I thought about doing this but my bash scripting skills are something
> > to be desired and echoing everything to a file just didn't sound like
> > an apealing solution.
> > 
> > > > anything because it does not automatically log root in.  So I just sit
> > > > there at the log on prompt because it also auto-scrambles the root
> > > > passwd.
> > >
> > > Well, you can edit the /usr/lib/catalyst/livecd/files/livecd-local.start
> > > file if you wish before building your CD.  In the future, I think I'm
> > > going to write up a patch to catalyst so that you can specify the
> > > local.start in the livecd-stage2 spec file, similar to the xinitrc.
> > 
> > That would be great, anything that allows more configurability out of
> > the box is awesome.
> > 
> > > > My question is this are there any packages that you have found not to
> > > > work with catalyst live-cd's because they change certain configuration
> > >
> > > Nope.
> > >
> > > >And are there any files that I could edit to make root
> > > > automatically log in?
> > >
> > > Do you have livecd in your USE in livecd-stage1?
> > 
> > Yes, livecd is in my USE flags in livecd-stage1
> >
> 
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Chris Gianelloni
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