How to add a Stage4.tar.bz2 to the Gentoo LiveCD??

NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Hey everyone,

Need to know how I can add a stage4.tar.bz2 to the original Install CD.

To further explain .. I'd like to create a DVD that duplicates my exisiting system. If I created a stage4.tar.bz2 (which is essentailly my system all zipped up) .... I am still required to do some small maintenance (partioning and such) that requires the capabilities of liveCD (the one you download).

Rather than, copy my stage4.tar.bz2 to another spearte CD, (that means one CD would be the downloaded Gentoo LiveCD, and the other being a CD containing solely my stage4.tar.bz2) I'd rather just place the stage4.tar.bz2 inside the downloaded LiveCD, then when the time comes, boot fro the liveCD, do the partitoning, mount my partitions, and finally extract my stage4.tar.bz2 from the the same CD.

Any help, greatly appreciated .. Thanks for reading

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Hey cokehabit,

It appears as though catalyst only builds you a LiveCD, but what about the programs and files that exisit on my system that I uniquely created. What does catalyst do about them??

Thanks

kwach · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject:

Hello, I had similar problem. This is how i did it (based on http://www.linux.rk.edu.pl/art_263.html):

1. Make a directory, in which you'll mount the Gentoo LiveCD.

NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Hey kuba,

Just two questions:

1. What do your mean in step 4, when you say "Adjust the newiso dir"??
2. Did you use catalyst to create the iso, or did you just use the gentoo LiveCD iso??

By the way, thanks for your clear and precise explanations.
Take Care

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

kwach · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject:

Use this script to create your backup https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-312817.html

Copy the result (.tar.gz or .tar.bz2 file) to the newiso dir and create the iso as I wrote in 5.

PS. I don't know what is catalyst, so i didn't use it

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NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Thanks kwach,

You couldn't be anymore helpful, I appreciate it .... I'll let you know how it turns out .. it'll probably take a day or two.

Take Care

a16b03 · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject:

What i did was:

Burned multisection disk using k3b:

step 1: burned instalation disk (started multisection disk)
setp 2: burned files i wanted to add (closed multisection disk)

The only thing is that i burned images to CD not DVD. That might be problem.

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

a16b03 · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject:

Corect me if i'm wrong, but my expieriance shows that you can't burn CD image to DVD.

Maybe You can somehow convert CD image to DVD. I don't know. If so post replay here how to do it.

P.S.
Sorry for language

idella4 · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject:

as far as I know you can burn a cd image to a dvd device using a writable cd,
but not a writable dvd.
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NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

If that is the case, that is, that you cannot burn my project (read above) to a writable DVD, than what do I do??

To clarify, if I plan on using the Gentoo LiveCD iso, and add to it my stage4.tar.bz2, the probability is that this will result in an iso that is much larger than the capacity a regular writable CD can hold.

Mathematicalty:
( ( Gentoo LiveCD + stage4.tar.bz2) == Large File)

If I am unable to fit it on a CD (Large File > 700MB), and additionally am not able to copy an iso to a DVD, then what do I do?? Do you follow, my problem?? Sort of??

Are we sure you cannot copy an iso onto a DVD for use??

Thanks

kwach · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:11 pm Post subject:

I would just give it a try with DVD-RW

It will take you no more than 20 minutes.
(I pesonally would hazard a guess that it will work)

Kuba
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NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Hey kwach,

I was just wondering ... yesterday in step 5, you know, where I create the new iso with:

mkisofs -RlDJLV "live-cd-custom" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o livecd-custom.iso newiso

I was just woindering if, you know or think this needs to be modified, if I am plan to to write to a dvd instead??

Thanks again

kwach · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject:

To be honest - I have absolutely no idea

But to my way of thinking - an iso file is just an iso and should work no matter if it's burned to a CD or to a DVD.
You know, without trying we can speculate for ever. Try it and let us know about results.

Take care, Kuba

PS. instead of "live-cd-custom" you can type "live-dvd-custom"

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NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Okay here is an update on my situation,

First to clarify, I have created the stage4.tar.bz2, and am planning to mount a smaller distribution of linux (Damn Small Linux - 50mb) as the loopback device to add my additional stage4.tar.bz2 file to. I chose damn small linux because I was informed on a previous thread that, because of dsl size, a CD could easily occupy the dsl distro in addition to a large stage4.tar.bz2 (250mb file) that is, (50MB + 250MB < 700MB).

So essentially what you have is something like this:

newiso == damn small linux + stage4.tar.bz2

Now when I issue the command to create the new iso (below):

mkisofs -RlDJLV "live-cd-custom" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o livecd-custom.iso newiso

I get the following reply from the command line:

mkisofs: The option '-L' is reserved by POSIX.1-2001.
mkisofs: The option '-L' means 'follow all symbolic links'.
mkisofs: Mkisofs-2.02 will introduce POSIX semantics for '-L'.
mkisofs: Use -allow-leading-dots in future to get old mkisofs behavior.
Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
use -input-charset to override.
mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot catalog directory 'isolinux'!

I'm almost cross the finnish line, need to know what I can do to acutally cross it.
Help someone, oh please!!

kwach · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject: