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List:       moblin-dev
Subject:    Re: [Moblin Dev] About Moblin Image Creator 2
From:       Daniel Baeyens <dani () warp ! es>
Date:       2009-01-29 21:12:41
Message-ID: 608368870901291312i178e7d88h8a222f0aea78f4ae () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 18:40, Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 04:50 -0700, Daniel Baeyens wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've tested mic2 and it created successfully a liveusb image...
>>
>> My problem is that now I would like to modify it's contents. With mic1
>> is easy to do (getting a console and rebuilding the image), but is it
>> possible with mic2? Do we have to wait for some features added (like
>> chroot-ing an existing image)?
>>
>> Is it possible to do something with mic1 and the mic2 image? I would
>> like something easier than extracting the squashfs.img file and
>> rebuild it after the changes...
>>
>> Any idea? Or is it better to still continue with mic1?
>
> I've expressed the same desire to Anas, but I don't think he ever had a
> chance to implement it (and i know i never gave it a try.)  Anas... i
> didn't see any new command line options.  Did i miss something?
>
> BTW, you can create a 'loop' device which is a filesystem on on a file,
> so you can:
>
> # sudo moblin-image-creator -c some.ks -f loop -k /var/tmp/my-cache
> # sudo mount -o loop some-TIMESTAMP.img /some/mount/point
> # sudo mount --bind /proc /some/mount/point # so you can use yum
> # sudo cp /etc/hosts /some/mount/point/ect/ # so you can use yum
> # sudo chroot /some/mount/point
>
> Anas, seems all we really need is a way to say:
> 'take this loop file and transform it into <pick an image type>'
>
> Or maybe something more generic to allow transforming between any format
> type (like take a vmware disk and transform it into a usbkey)

Thanks both for the tips :D Everything is clear (and current target
doesn't sound bad :) )

Kind regards,
-- 
Daniel Baeyens
Warp Networks S.L. - http://www.warp.es

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