[livemedia-discuss] A question about live media

[Zhiqi Ni - Sun China ERI (Beijing)]

Hi Moinak,
    Thank you very much for your explanation! Yes, it's better to figure 
out a way to generate "mkbootcd.files.minimal" automatically.
    For "modules_relocate.list", if I don't write anything in it, which 
means all kernel modules are put to /kernel in miniroot, what's the 
result will be? Will this only cause miniroot bigger and/or the boot 
process slower, or that will prevent the live CD from working?

    I just came out another question: I found if a machine has no 
Solaris swap partition on it's harddisk, then if I use the live CD on 
that machine, the system boot from DVD will have no swap space. Is there 
any plan to give this live system a swap space in this situation?

    Best regards,
Ni, Zhiqi




Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Zhiqi Ni - Sun China ERI (Beijing) wrote:
>> Hi experts,
>>     My name is Ni, Zhiqi, I'm working in HCTS team as a developer. 
>> These days I'm investigating the possibility of put HCTS into Solaris 
>> live CD and make it works. Now I have a question about live CD: I 
>> noticed there are 2 files in livekit, "mkbootcd.files.minimal" and 
>> "modules_relocate.list", they contain important information to make 
>> live CD works. My question is: how those 2 files are created? I know 
>> they are already shipped with livekit, what I want to know is if I 
>> want to create them from scratch, how should I do?
>>     Thanks for your time!
>
>   They were created manually and at present they are maintained manually.
>   That is with a new build additional stuff in /kernel, /lib, /sbin, 
> /etc are
>   identified using a script and then added there. Similarly removed stuff
>   are deleted.
>
>   We need to identify a better way of automatically generating
>   mkbootcd.files.minimal.
>
>   modules_relocate.list is a different story. That file contains
>   a list of kernel modules that I have determined to be not
>   necessary to keep in /kernel in the miniroot. So they are
>   moved into /usr/kernel. These modules are not required during
>   early bootup phase.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>>     Best regards,
>> Ni, Zhiqi
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