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livecd-creator – creates live CD or DVD images.

Synopsis

livecd-creator [OPTIONS]

Description

livecd-creator creates live CD or DVD images(ISO images) from kickstart files. Kickstart files contain information about packages and configuration settings which are used to build the image.

Options

-h, –help: Shows the help message and exits.

Image Options

These options define the created image.

-c KSCFG, –config=KSCFG: Path to kickstart configuration file.
-b BASE_ON, –base-on=BASE_ON: Add packages to an existing live CD iso9660 image.
-f FS_LABEL, –fslabel=FS_LABEL: Defines the file system label. The default is based on the configuration name.
–compression-type=COMPRESSOR: Specify a compressor recognized by mksquashfs. xz is the default and works with 2.6.38 and later kernels. gzip works with all kernels. lzo works with 2.6.36 and later kernels. lzma will only work with custom kernels. Set to ‘None’ to force reading the compressor used in BASE_ON. If gzip is used, the -comp option is not passed to mksquashfs to allow the use of older versions of mksquashfs.
–releasever=VER: Set the value to substitute for $releasever in kickstart repo urls

System Directory Options

These options define directories used on your system for creating the live image.

-t TMPDIR, –tmpdir=TMPDIR: defines the temporary directory to use. The default directory is /var/tmp.
–cache=CACHEDIR: Defines the cache directory to use (default: private cache).

Examples

Barebones LiveCD

livecd-creator \ –config=/usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-minimal.ks

Fedora Desktop Live CD

livecd-creator \ –config=/usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-desktop.ks \ –fslabel=Fedora9-LiveCD-foo

Repo Extensions

livecd-creator provides for some extensions to the repo commands similar to what yum supports. The strings $arch, $basearch and $releasever are replaced with the system arch, basearch and release version respectively. When no –releasever is passed it defaults to the current system’s version. The allows the use of repo commands such as the following:

repo –name=fedora –mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch

Note that in a chroot environment (like koji) the rpmdb is not available, so either don’t use $releasever in that case, or pass –releasever=VER

Contributors

David Zeuthen, Jeremy Katz, Douglas McClendon and a team of many other contributors. See the AUTHORS file in the source distribution for the complete list of credits.

Bugs

Report bugs to the mailing list "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list" or directly to Bugzilla "http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/" against the "Fedora" product, and the "livecd-tools" component.

Copyright

Copyright (C) Fedora Project 2008,2009, and various contributors. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html". There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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