Re: Initrd overlay for gentoo.igz

Hi Eliot,

there are serveral Knoppix remaster (google:"knoppix remaster") Howto's 
out there, you may have a look at them, but I cannot guarantee for it. 
One difference: LiveCD's usually use squashfs while Knoppix uses cloop.
Greetings,

Georg

Eliot Gable wrote:
> Well, I assume you are talking about the catalyst build? I am trying to stay
> away from the catalyst utilities. I do not want to build a whole new livecd
> image. I just want to use the x86 minimal livecd image I downloaded. I do
> not see any livecd-stage2.spec file on that CD. I am not at all familiar
> with catalyst and I was not planning on spending the time learning it. I
> thought this would be a relatively simple task -- just unpacking the files
> on the CD, adding a couple in, and repackaging them. Can I not do it this
> way?
>
> On 9/27/05, Georg Lippold <georg.lippold-Mmb7MZpHnFY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Eliot,
> >
> > just use
> >
> > livecd/root_overlay: /path
> >
> > in your livecd-stage2.spec
> >
> > In /path, there is this structure
> >
> >
> > > find . -print
> > >
> > > ./etc
> > > ./etc/init.d
> > > ./etc/init.d/somescript
> > The whole gentoo.igz is just the kernel ramdisk, that is discarded after
> > the filesystem from the CD is mounted. Your other modified files can go
> > into that directory, too. They are copied over stage2 before it gets
> > compressed.
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Georg
> >
> > Eliot Gable wrote:
> >
> > > I am new to the whole "live cd" thing, so please bear with me here.
> > >
> > > I am trying to add a file to the /etc/init.d/ directory that exists
> > *after*
> >
> > > the entire Gentoo live cd boots up. I have figured out that the
> > /etc/init.d
> >
> > > directory in the ISO image on the CD is a base environment of some
> > sorts,
> >
> > > and that the gentoo.igz file in the isolinux directory on the CD
> > contains
> >
> > > the real set of files that exist in the /etc/init.d directory once the
> > > entire CD finishes booting. I have created a folder to hold my overlay
> > > files. This folder looks like so:
> > >
> > >
> > > Now, I try to create an overlay like so:
> > >
> > > find . -print | cpio --quiet -o -H newc | gzip -9 > ../gentoo.igz.new
> > > cd ..
> > > cat gentoo.igz.old gentoo.igz.new > gentoo.igz
> > > cp gentoo.igz newcd/isolinux/
> > > cd newcd
> > > mkisofs -o ../gentoo.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat
> > > -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -iso-level 2 -boot-info-table .
> > > cdrecord -blank=fast dev=/dev/hdc ../gentoo.iso
> > >
> > > The thing is, the resultant CD will boot just fine. However, the file
> > does
> >
> > > not show up in the /etc/init.d/ directory after the CD finishes booting