livecd January 2007

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42 discussions

Intenet access with LiveCD?
by Jim Dever 11 May '07

11 May '07

Hi, I was excited to see the release of the Fedora LiveCD as I'm looking around at different distributions but for some reason I can't get it to see my internet connection at all. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. NIC: Cnet PRO200WL PCI (not wireless) Router: Linksys RTP300 Output of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:79:95:90 inet addr: 192.168.15.102 Bcast: 192.168.15.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::280:adiff:fe79:9590/64 Scope: Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1 RX packets: 13 errors: 170 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0 TX packets: 0 errors: 10 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 10 collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 1000 RX bytes: 2597 (2.5 KiB) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b) Interrupt: 201 Base address: 0xec00 ----- I noticed that it says UP but not RUNNING. The Ubuntu LiveCD access the internet just fine so I know it's possible to MAKE it work. I just like to see it work before making room for a full install. I've used Linux before but it's been ages ago and before I had a NIC so I'm pretty new to this part. Any help would be appreciated! -- Jim

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How to clone a HD install onto a livecd?
by Lars Bjørndal 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

I've used Dirk Westfal's article which describes how to create a Fedora 4 livecd, to create my own customized livecd. It worked fine up to FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5. While trying to boot a FC6 livecd with the latest 2.6.19 kernel, it didn't boot. Do anyone knows if the RPMs that are used in this article are updated, and may be downloaded from anywhere? Unfortunately the livecd-creator seems not to be able to do what I want, or is it? Lars

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Setting video resolution on boot up
by Mailbox99 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hello, When I try to boot the LiveCD, my monitor shows that the resolution is too high / out of specification. I end up with a blank screen and have no way of accessing Fedora. I tried booting with the installer option of "resolution=1024x768", but the LiveCD appears to not accept that command. Video card is a Matrox P650, the monitor is a Compaq V75, CPU: P4, 2.8 GHz, 1 GB ram. Question: Does the installer check the monitor resolution on boot up? Thanks Paul Hudson

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Good download and burn but unsuccessful boot
by Walt Haas 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Hi All, I downloaded the FC 6 live CD ISO from the official Red Hat download directory and verified the sha1sum. Then I burned the ISO to a CD using cdrecord, which had no complaints about the burn. However when I boot from this CD, the boot process gets through uncompressing the kernel then says something to the effect that /dev/root does not exist, I need to create a symlink and it drops me into a shell. And sure enough, /dev/root does not exist. The hardware is a pretty plain vanilla old Pentium with half a gig of ram, parallel IDE and a couple of Adaptec SCSI cards, and the Pioneer DVD burner that the CD is booted from (which is connected as IDE secondary master). I've never had a problem booting Knoppix 5 on this machine. Fedora Core 6 boots from the IDE primary master hard drive with only one complaint, something about incorrect PBLK length [5] on ACPI(?), but then goes on to boot and run successfully. When run from the hard drive, FC 6 /dev/root is a character special device not a symlink. Whazzup? Thanks in advance -- Walt

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Minimal LiveCD
by Manoj Bhatta 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Hi, I want to make minimal LiveCD without any GUI. And after booting, i want to copy some data from LIVECD to my HDD. I have tried using "fedora-livecd". It boots up fine, but i could not logon. How can i put my data into LiveCD and copy into HDD automatically. Thanks for wonderful tool. Thanks Manoj

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dual processor
by tony 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hello, I am seeing some strange behavior with SMP: - the second CPU isn't active on cold boot, a hot reboot is required. This is with the 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 kernel on an abit BP6 with two Celeron 500s Can someone please tell me why this is so Cheers Tony --

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Question?
by Adam M. Dutko 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

I tested if I could eject the livecd after gnome started. I could like I originally thought I'd be able to: the disc isn't restricted from 'umount'. As one might imagine, this caused my machine to lockup--hard. This is probably something we should address at FUDCon, in addition to which kernel modules should be included on the disk, instead of statically defining. Thoughts??? -Adam

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Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Add package eject
by Adam M. Dutko 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Vnpenguin, "No, there is another error in which we see explicitely "command not found /usr/bin/eject" ..." The path to the eject command on your system is incorrect. I noticed these problems when I was building my first few live cd's. You should be able to modify the mayflower script to /usr/sbin/eject instead of /usr/bin/eject (note the 'sbin'). It's a path related issue. As a normal user when you issue 'which eject' it should show /usr/bin/eject, but as root it will show '/usr/sbin/eject'. Odd eh? But that fixed it for me... -Adam

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x86_64 support
by Brian Cain 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

This tool is really great! Thanks! I've got a working x86_64 configuration. I've also made some other changes that I think make the livecd-creator script a little more pythonic and added some little features that interested me. I think I'd like to add support for multiple targets on the same CD at some point, so I added in some abstractions that might facilitate that. I also made some tweaks to the exception handling. Anyways, I've attached it here. The changes to livecd-creator were big enough that it didn't make enough sense to submit a patch. If I get a chance later I'll break the x86_64 support into its own patch. I think I saw some messages about a git repository in the archives. It wasn't mentioned on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD, though. Where's a good place to RTFM? -- -Brian

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Add package eject
by Vnpenguin 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hi, There is also a error message when I build livecd with standard packages list of David's scripts. This error occurs because the script can not found /usr/bin/eject. By adding package "eject" into the list, this message disapears :) I just build a new release of our customized livecd with XFCE desktop. Here is the list of all package http://vnoss.net/vn2663 . There are many "non-free" packages on it and the CD was built specially with Vietnamese support (input method, fonts, customized bookmark & add-ons of firefox, databases for stardict, ...). Thanks, -- http://vnoss.org

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