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Because livemedia-tools is not stable software for creating pidora images we have a modified version of livemedia-creator that works well however this software is currently out of date, so we have decided to keep using this version of livemedia to produce future images. You can accessing our custom version of livemedia which is located on the host machine cal-7-2 within a chroot log onto the host machine iraq.proximity.on.ca then ssh into the compose node host machine cal-7-2.
*ssh user@iraq.proximity.on.ca
*ssh userroot@cal-7-2
*Note if you restart or the node is shutdown you will need to bind mount /proc, /dev, /sys to f17v6/proc, f17v6/dev, f17v6/sys with the following command before you chroot.
Run the provided Livemedia-Creator command provided below to start the compose process.
== Example Livemedia-Creator Command ==
* livemedia-creator --make-disk --no-virt --image-only --keep-image --ks=pidora-f20.ks
Estimated time for compilation (15mins)
== Example Kickstart File ==
== Package List File ==
Pidora 2014 Package List kickstart: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Pidora-2014-Packagelist-kickStart
* command details
<br>LABEL="boot" /boot vfat noauto,comment=systemd.automount 1 2
<br>EOF
== Preparing The Final Image ==
When you have a successful disk image ready the boot partition needs to be reformatted with a vfat filesystem type, the Raspberry Pi will only boot with a vfat boot partition. This can be done manually or by using the script provided below. The final image's rootfs also needs to be resized to minimize the size of file system, there is also a script provided to do this.
* all the preparation scripts are located in /var/tmp/ directory along with the disk*.img file created by livemedia-creator.
== Vfat Reformating Script ==
This script copies the boot partition to a temporary folder then reformat's that partition to vfat from ext4 it also removes the swap partition that is created by live-media-creator the swap partition is created during the firstboot process by the user.
Pidora 2014 Reformating Boot Partition Script: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Pidora-2014-Reformating-Boot-Script
Example usage
* revfat disk_image.img
== Shrinking The Image ==
Script to take an SD card image (such as for a Raspberry Pi) with a dos disklabel and two partitions (boot vfat and rootfs extX), and shrink it so that the rootfs (2nd partition) is as short as possible plus a small free space allowance.
Pidora 2014 Shrink Script: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Pidora-2014-Shrink-Script
Example usage
* shrink disk_image.img
== Preparing Pidora Noobs distribution ==
This script extracts and compresses the boot and rootfs of a Pidora image. It also generates and updates all the necessary json files, images and release notes required by the Noobs distribution.
Pidora 2014 Noobs Script: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Pidora-2014-Noobs-Script
Example Usage
* makenoobs disk_image